Just a few quotes from Schopenhauer, whom I love. And two others at the end that I'll just throw in for variety's sake. Variety = spice of life.
Of ten things that annoy us, nine would not be able to do so if we understood them thoroughly in their causes, and therefore knew their necessity and true nature; but we would do this much oftener if we made them the object of reflection before making them the object of wrath and indignation. (I must constantly keep this in mind. It's so hard, though. It took EINSTEIN to figure out the theory of relativity.. that it's different from someone else's perspective. Sigh.)
All continuous mental work demands pauses and rest, otherwise stupidity and incapacity ensue, at first of course only temporarily; but if this rest is persistently denied to the intellect it will
become excessively and continuously fatigued, and the consequence is a permanent deterioration of it. (Ha-ha. This is just me going: it's okay to be lazy sometimes.)
Love and hate falsify our judgment entirely. In our enemies we see nothing but faults---in our loved ones nothing but excellences, and even their faults appear to us amiable. (So true, but I think as time goes by, you recognize faults but you just deal with them because the love is more important.)
What a much harder position one has if one promises men instruction than if one promises them amusement. Hence it is much more fortunate to be born a poet than a philosopher. (YAY! Fortune smiled upon me when I was born a poet.)
Every pleasure and vivacity of the mind lies in this, that one has something wherein, comparing himself with others, he can think himself magnificent. -- Hobbes. (I am magnificient.)
In the mid-1990s, astronomers simulated the behavior of the Earth and discovered that without a large Moon, the Earth would not keep to a 23 1/2° tilt but rather would change its tilt wildly, and even flip over! -- my Astronomy book. (I wonder what it'd be like if the Earth did flip over one day. Would we all fall off? Would we feel it? We'd probably be like, WHOA IT'S COLD or WHOA IT'S HOT, depending on the season, but that'd be crazy.)
