Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the … - Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is so easy to explain, yet so inexplicable, as it reproduces all the emotions of our inner being without reality, remote from pain.

Ruhm muß daher erst erworben werden: die Ehre hingegen braucht bloß nicht verloren zu gehen.

No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error, such as philosophy, religion, or any other branch of knowledge where it is necessary to take large views; because wrong notions imbibed early can seldom be rooted out, and of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to arrive at maturity.