Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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My body and my will are one.
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
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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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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use.
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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 effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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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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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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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
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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 greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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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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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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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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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.