Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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 charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.
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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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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
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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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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 cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
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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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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
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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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Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
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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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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
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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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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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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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The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
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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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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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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.