All Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
- We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. Bitter
- [T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look… Animal
- The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use Animal
- First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. All
- It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do Difficult
- It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes… Happy
- To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers… Book
- There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. Difference
- There is something in us that is wiser than our head. Funny
- When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just… Into
- The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they… Accidents
- It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in… Bad
- The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,… Afterwards
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,… Able
- The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his… Age
- The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. Acorn
- The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being… All
- A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his… All
- To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in… Always Living
- Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will. Attains
- If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so… Adversity
- He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and… Booth
- In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not… Added
- Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to… Former
- Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of… All