Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes And Sayings

Boredom Is Just The Reverse Side Of Fascination: Both Depend On Being Outside Rather Than Inside A Situation, And One Leads To The Other.

Change Alone Is Eternal, Perpetual, Immortal.

Music Is The Melody Whose Text Is The World.

We Can Come To Look Upon The Deaths Of Our Enemies With As Much Regret As We Feel For Those Of Our Friends, Namely, When We Miss Their Existence As Witnesses To Our Success.

The Brain May Be Regarded As A Kind Of Parasite Of The Organism, A Pensioner, As It Were, Who Dwells With The Body.

It's The Niceties That Make The Difference Fate Gives Us The Hand, And We Play The Cards.

For An Author To Write As He Speaks Is Just As Reprehensible As The Opposite Fault, To Speak As He Writes; For This Gives A Pedantic Effect To What He Says, And At The Same Time Makes Him Hardly Intelligible.

To Free A Person From Error Is To Give, And Not To Take Away.

Compassion Is The Basis Of Morality.

It Is Only A Man's Own Fundamental Thoughts That Have Truth And Life In Them. For It Is These That He Really And Completely Understands. To Read The Thoughts Of Others Is Like Taking The Remains Of Someone Else's Meal, Like Putting On The Discarded Clothes Of A Stranger.

In The Sphere Of Thought, Absurdity And Perversity Remain The Masters Of The World, And Their Dominion Is Suspended Only For Brief Periods.

The Fundament Upon Which All Our Knowledge And Learning Rests Is The Inexplicable.

The Alchemists In Their Search For Gold Discovered Many Other Things Of Greater Value.

Almost All Of Our Sorrows Spring Out Of Our Relations With Other People.

The Wise Have Always Said The Same Things, And Fools, Who Are The Majority Have Always Done Just The Opposite.

Will Power Is To The Mind Like A Strong Blind Man Who Carries On His Shoulders A Lame Man Who Can See.

The Discovery Of Truth Is Prevented More Effectively, Not By The False Appearance Things Present And Which Mislead Into Error, Not Directly By Weakness Of The Reasoning Powers, But By Preconceived Opinion, By Prejudice.

The Longer A Man's Fame Is Likely To Last, The Longer It Will Be In Coming.

Hatred Is An Affair Of The Heart; Contempt That Of The Head.

Because People Have No Thoughts To Deal In, They Deal Cards, And Try And Win One Another's Money. Idiots!

It Is In The Treatment Of Trifles That A Person Shows What They Are.

Buying Books Would Be A Good Thing If One Could Also Buy The Time To Read Them In: But As A Rule The Purchase Of Books Is Mistaken For The Appropriation Of Their Contents.

We Forfeit Three-quarters Of Ourselves In Order To Be Like Other People.

Honor Has Not To Be Won; It Must Only Not Be Lost.

Nature Shows That With The Growth Of Intelligence Comes Increased Capacity For Pain, And It Is Only With The Highest Degree Of Intelligence That Suffering Reaches Its Supreme Point.

It Is Only At The First Encounter That A Face Makes Its Full Impression On Us.

Every Parting Gives A Foretaste Of Death, Every Reunion A Hint Of The Resurrection.

The Greatest Of Follies Is To Sacrifice Health For Any Other Kind Of Happiness.

Suffering By Nature Or Chance Never Seems So Painful As Suffering Inflicted On Us By The Arbitrary Will Of Another.

National Character Is Only Another Name For The Particular Form Which The Littleness, Perversity And Baseness Of Mankind Take In Every Country. Every Nation Mocks At Other Nations, And All Are Right.

There Is No Doubt That Life Is Given Us, Not To Be Enjoyed, But To Be Overcome; To Be Got Over.

The Greatest Achievements Of The Human Mind Are Generally Received With Distrust.

To Find Out Your Real Opinion Of Someone, Judge The Impression You Have When You First See A Letter From Them.

Every Nation Ridicules Other Nations, And All Are Right.

Reading Is Equivalent To Thinking With Someone Else's Head Instead Of With One's Own.

Journalists Are Like Dogs, When Ever Anything Moves They Begin To Bark.

The Man Never Feels The Want Of What It Never Occurs To Him To Ask For.

Men Are By Nature Merely Indifferent To One Another; But Women Are By Nature Enemies.