Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man"

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"