Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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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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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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Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedürfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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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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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 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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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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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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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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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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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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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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Der allgemeine Ueberblick zeigt uns, als die beiden Feinde des menschlichen Glückes, den Schmerz und die Langeweile.
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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.