Arthur Schopenhauer

Authority and example lead the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a constant process of dying.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life must be some form of mistake

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of all morality

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life without pain has no meaning.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Motives are causes experienced from within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— 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

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— 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

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

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is very necessary that a man should be apprised early in life that it is a masquerade in which he finds…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study…

— 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

“Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely…

— 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

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and…

— 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

“What is knowledge? it is primarily and essentially idea. What is idea? A very complicated physiological process in the brain of an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The look of good sense and prudence, even of the best kind, differs from that of genius, in that the former bears…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Voltaire exclaims: ‘Oh metaphysics! We have come precisely as far as in the time of the early Druids.’c But what other science…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer