There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before — you've just got to try to think it all over again. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. "What!" he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, "looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,"—"You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?"