The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. — 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
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — 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
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these… — 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
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — 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
