If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there is no… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
