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

"Compassion is the basis of all morality"

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

"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."

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

"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."