Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.