To have something to say by itself is virtually a sufficient condition for good style. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing
that it philosophizes.

Astrology provides a brilliant proof of the miserable subjectivity of human beings, as a result of which they relate everything to themselves and go from every thought in a straight line immediately back to themselves. It relates the course of the great celestial bodies to the pathetic I, as it also connects the comets in the sky with earthly quarrels and shabby tricks.