All truth is simple. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. I want, once and for all, not to know many things.
Wisdom sets limits to knowledge too.
I am now concerned with something very comprehensible, namely, explaining how all of us, through Schopenhauer, can educate ourselves against our times-because we have the advantage of really knowing these times through him. There are a thousand paths that have never been trodden - a thousand healths and hidden isles of life. Even now man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. Out of life's school of war.