Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.