Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
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The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
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In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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The appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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Unrest is the mark of existence.
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Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
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What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.