Arthur Schopenhauer — "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

"The brain is a parasite of the organism."

"They are the sex which pays the debt of life, not by what it does, but by what it suffers. The pains of child-bearing, the care of the child, the constant dependence upon the man, and the short durati…"

"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured…"

"The greatest absurdity is to think that women are capable of artistic or scientific production. They are not."

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."