Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
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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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Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
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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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...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.
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Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedürfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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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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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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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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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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The moralists of Europe have pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
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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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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 highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
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The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world 'God' is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word 'world'.
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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.