The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inac — Motivation

"Mens feelings are as different as their faces."

"There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a mans heart."

"There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine."

"I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is to escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of ones own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsmans irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity. ... Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. That is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientist do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."

"For theres nothing we read of in tortures inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions."

"There are two things people want more than sex and money . . . i.e recognition and praise."