Arthur Schopenhauer

Time is that in which all things pass away.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life without pain has no meaning.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Motives are causes experienced from within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“the world is my idea”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Fate shuffles the cards and we play.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A vida oscila, como um pêndulo, de um lado para o outro, entre a dor e o tédio.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A solidão é a sorte de todos os espíritos excepcionais.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Os caprichos advindos do instinto sexual são totalmente análogos aos fogos fátuos: enganam do modo mais vivo, mas, se os seguimos, eles…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The use of the word person in every European language to signify a human individual is unintentionally appropriate; persona really means a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he…

— Arthur Schopenhauer