Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Jede Trennung gibt einen Vorgeschmack des Todes und jedes Wiedersehen einen Vorgeschmack der Auferstehung.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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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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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.
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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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Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.
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There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
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Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
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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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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!