Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

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.

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.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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

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.

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.

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