“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Philosophy and the Intellect”, Parerga and Paralipomena (via philosophybits)
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“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. In the latter case his vanity may suffer; but in the former it will be his heart, his sympathy, forever saying, ‘Oh, why do all of you also want to have it as hard as I?’”—
Friedrich Nietzsche,
§290 Beyond Good and Evil








