No Rose Without A Thorn

Not To Go To The Theater Is Like Making One's Toilet Without A Mirror.

A Man Shows His Character Just In The Way In Which He Deals With Trifles, For Then He Is Off His Guard.

We Can Regard Our Life As A Uselessly Disturbing Episode In The Blissful Repose Of Nothingness.

In Reading, The Mind Is, In Fact, Only The Playground Of Another's Thoughts.

Not To My Contemporaries, Not To My Compatriots But To Mankind I Commit My Now Completed Work In The Confidence That It Will Not Be Without Value For Them, Even If This Should Be Late Recognised, As Is Commonly The Lot Of What Is Good. For It Cannot Have Been For The Passing Generation, Engrossed With The Delusion Of The Moment, That My Mind, Almost Against My Will, Has Uninterruptedly Stuck To Its Work Through The Course Of A Long Life. Preface To The Second Edition Of "the World As Will And Representation