“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Life without pain has no meaning.”
“Compassion is the only real basis of all voluntary justice.”
“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.”
“The universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.”
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“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.”
“To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is devilish.”
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.”
“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively by preconceived opinion, by prejudice, than by the false appearance of things.”
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“The world is not a factory and animals are not for our use.”
“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.”
“Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.”
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
“The brain may die, but its thoughts live on.”
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
“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.”
“A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.”
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“We should always be more concerned with the means to solve a problem than with the solution itself.”
“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.”
“Boredom is a proof of the inanity of life.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles — for then he is off his guard.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“Aesthetic contemplation is, above all, the redemption of the suffering of the world.”
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes :
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
“The world is my idea.”
“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”