Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

The people change, the common denominator is you.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

The more natural, the better.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!