Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
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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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If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.
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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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Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.
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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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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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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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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
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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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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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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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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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Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedürfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.
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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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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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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.