Arthur Schopenhauer

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can read more

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only read more

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.