Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Each day is a little life.
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
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Zu unserer Besserung bedürfen wir eines Spiegels.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
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The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.
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The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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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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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.