Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Time is that in which all things pass away.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life without pain has no meaning.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No one can transcend their own individuality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Scoundrels are always sociable.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Unrest is the mark of existence.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For our improvement we need a mirror.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

— Arthur Schopenhauer