Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- 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.
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.