Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

• Health
• Happiness
• Follies

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Risk

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Music
  • Art
  • Science

• For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Work
  • Moral
  • Inspiration

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Sad

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Psychology
  • Heroes

• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mom

• Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Side
  • Some People

• My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Value

• When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Listening
  • Parent

• It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

  

  Piers Corbyn
  • Up

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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Follies