Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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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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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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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. 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.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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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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Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
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Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.
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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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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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No one can transcend their own individuality.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
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What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.