Men Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Man shows his character best in trifles.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

— Arthur Schopenhauer