Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.