The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to… — 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
“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The scenes in our life resemble pictures in a rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood. — 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
