Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Everybody's friend is nobody's.
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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
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Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.
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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
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The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.
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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.
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.