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