Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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