Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced. - Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"