All Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
- The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a… Chiefly
- The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of… Art
- At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity. Bottom
- Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the… Allow
- Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that… Alone
- The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the… Beauties
- It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. Big
- Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. Education
- Money is human happiness in the abstract. Abstract
- A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills. Cannot Determine
- You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want. Free
- There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries,… Among
- Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Every Person
- The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom Boredom
- Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third… Every Truth
- A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man. Divine
- Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely… Abstract
- Man should think like few do and talk like the many others. Few
- The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which… Absolutely
- Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. Coming
- Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches Company
- Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Contempt
- Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. Fame
- Human life must be some form of mistake Form
- Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world Dreams