Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death,… — 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 and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the… — 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
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our… — 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
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that… — 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 art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Considering the monotony and consequent insipidity of life one would find it unendurably tedious after any considerable length of time, were it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. — 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
“It is very necessary that a man should be apprised early in life that it is a masquerade in which he finds… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Therefore books do not take the place of experience, because concepts always remain universal, and so do not reach down to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that the idea of dignity can be applied only in an ironical sense to a being whose will… — 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
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
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
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
