“If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”
“The brain may die, but its thoughts live on.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
“The world is my idea.”
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
“Aesthetic contemplation is, above all, the redemption of the suffering of the world.”
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively by preconceived opinion, by prejudice, than by the false appearance of things.”
“Compassion is the only real basis of all voluntary justice.”
“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death.”
“Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.”
“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
“The universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.”
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”
“A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.”
“A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”
“In action, a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.”
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
“A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is the compendium of everything his mouth will ever say.”
“To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is devilish.”
“Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.”
“Life without pain has no meaning.”
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite.”
“A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles — for then he is off his guard.”
“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”
“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes :
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
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“We should always be more concerned with the means to solve a problem than with the solution itself.”
“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
“The world is not a factory and animals are not for our use.”
“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
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“Boredom is a proof of the inanity of life.”
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.”
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”