All Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
- ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) Book
- NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… Been
- Life without pain has no meaning. Inspirational
- If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read… Anyone
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how… Astray
- Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said… Bankers
- And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… All
- The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Business
- To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish Devilish
- We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of… Acquire
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. Contributes
- The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of… All
- Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. Confusion
- Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that… Everybody
- To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions… Acceptance
- The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of… Animal
- ...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an… Art
- the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life… Character
- Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. Corrected
- Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. Attained
- What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and… Accordingly
- It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires… Agony
- The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Always Sure
- Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do… Better
- The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to… Actual