Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

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

"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

"Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head."

"Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing."

"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."

"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."

"Only the present is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality."

"Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it."

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

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

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

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

"The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time."

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

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

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome."

"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."

"To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties."

"Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first."

"Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men."

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

"Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may light, our horizon will always remain bounded by a deep obscurity."

"Will is the thing-in-itself, the inner content, the essence of the world."

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible."

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

"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."