"[...] all knowledge, and especially the weightiest knowledge of the truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation", 1819)
"Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation", 1819)
"The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation", 1819)
"To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world, and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason, this and nothing else is philosophy." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation", 1819)
"Religion is the metaphysics of the masses […] Just as they have popular poetry, and the popular wisdom of proverbs, so they must have popular metaphysics too: for mankind absolutely needs an interpretation of life; and this, again, must be suited to popular comprehension." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion", 1851)
"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion", 1851)
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice." (Arthur Schopenhauer, "Parerga and Paralipomena", 1851)
"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer's mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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