Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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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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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
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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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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
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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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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
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Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedürfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
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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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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.
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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
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Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
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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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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.