Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
-
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life
-
Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
-
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?
-
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
-
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
-
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
-
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
-
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
-
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
-
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
-
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
-
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
-
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
-
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
-
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
-
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
-
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
-
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
-
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
-
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
-
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
-
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
-
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.