Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)
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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
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Ueberhaupt aber bin ich allmälig der Meinung geworden, daß der erwähnte Nutzen der Kathederphilosophie von dem Nachtheil überwogen werde, den die Philosophie als Profession der Philosophie als freier Wahrheitsforschung, oder die Philosophie im Auftrage der Regierung der Philosophie im Auftrage der Natur und der Menschheit bringt.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
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Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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My body and my will are one.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, nötig hat, mit den Menschen in Berührung zu kommen, desto besser ist er daran.
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.