Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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.