Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first... - Arthur Schopenhauer

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"One should use common words to say uncommon things"

"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"

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

"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."