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  ...when great, patience is incompatible. It is the innate virtue of a phlegmatic, indolent, and spiritless people, as also of women. But that it is nevertheless so very useful and necessary is a sign that the world is very badly constituted.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.
* * * * * Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.  
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If you want to find out your real opinion of anyone, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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The course of our individual life and the events in it, as far as their true meaning and connection is concerned, may be compared to a piece of rough mosaic. So long as you stand close in front of it, you cannot get a right view of the objects presented, nor perceive...   Schopenhauer, Arthur

Excerpt from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. · This quote is about stubbornness · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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