Arthur Schopenhauer

“(...) one man will look another in the face, with the impudent assurance that he will never see anything but a miserable…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Scoundrels are always sociable.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by showing a man…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees…

— Arthur Schopenhauer