Schopenhauer

“Geçmişte kimse yaşamadı, gelecekte kimse yaşamayacak; her türlü yaşamın biçimi şimdidir; hiçbir kötülüğün alıp götüremeyeceği bir mülktür bu.”

“We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.”

“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”

“The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

“Hay pocas cosas que pongan con tanta seguridad de buen humor como el relato de alguna calamidad que se ha sufrido últimamente, o también la sincera confesión de una debilidad personal".”

“To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.”

“Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.”

“Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.”

“...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;”

“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”

“The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.”

“the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.”

“...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.”

“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others...”

“To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't. ”