“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and...” — Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”

“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man, a degree which is the higher the more intelligent the man is; to this world it has been sought to apply the system of optimism, and demonstrate to us that it is the best of all possible worlds. The absurdity is glaring.”

“For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.”

“My mum was methodical in making sure we did our homework perfectly. She would do outlines to help us. When we were younger, she used flash cards.”

“Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'”