Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.Michel de Montaigne
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.Michel de Montaigne
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.Michel de Montaigne
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.Arthur Schopenhauer
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.Arthur Schopenhauer
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.Cicero
