World Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Authority and example lead the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“the world is my idea”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The world is my representation

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

— Arthur Schopenhauer

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

— 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

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective…

— 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

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more:…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in…

— 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

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer