Zubin Mehta-Rao

“However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume II

“It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky