Ghost Knight > Ghost Knight's Quotes

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”
― Richard Brautigan

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The thing I fear most is fear.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, intellectual distinction leads to unsociability.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Genius lives only one storey above madness”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Sociability belongs to the most dangerous, even destructive inclinations, since it brings us into contact with beings the great majority of whom are morally bad and intellectually dull or perverted.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it off-hand for what it is. This is the true sense of the maxim--Live and let live. That, however, is a task which is difficult in proportion as it is right; and he is a happy man who can once for all avoid having to do with a great many of his fellow creatures.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concers something that we are proud of.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Whoever attaches great importance to the opinions of people pays them too much honour.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“People's envy shows how unhappy they feel; their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones; it radiates its own light while the others only reflect what they receive.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals

“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

“The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche