Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
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Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
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Die Gegenwart eines Gedankens ist wie die Gegenwart einer Geliebten.
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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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Unrest is the mark of existence.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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Scoundrels are always sociable.
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Jede Trennung gibt einen Vorgeschmack des Todes und jedes Wiedersehen einen Vorgeschmack der Auferstehung.
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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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To become indignant at people's conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
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Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
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The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.