Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.