Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.


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Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

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ARTHUR RIMBAUD
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...
ARTHUR PINE
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of ch...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little yout...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu...
ARTHUR SYMONS
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that othe...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
ARTHUR MILLER
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
ARTHUR MILLER
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
ARTHUR MILLER
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is qu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intel...
ARTHUR MILLER
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and ...
ARTHUR O'SHAUNESSEY
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...
ARTHUR PINE
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER