Sommige verstandige citaten.

"The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand" Arthur Schopenhauer: Ch III, The World As Representation (1819; 1844)

"Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."

William Shakespeare : Le Beau scene iii , Act I

"Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations." Arthur Schopenhauer : Ch. 4, The World As Will.)

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude."

William Shakespeare : Amiens, scene vii , Act III




"Die Erinnerung wirkt wie das Sammlungsglas in der Camera obscura: Sie zieht alles zusammen und bringt dadurch ein viel schöneres Bild hervor, als sein Original ist."

"The memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: It gathers all together from it is produced a far more beautiful picture, than was originally there." A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. Arthur Schopenhauer : Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life



"He who wants to be born must destroy a world." Hermann Hesse: Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth (1919)

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Arthur Schopenhauer