Arthur Schopenhauer's Quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer's Quotes 126

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them....

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false...

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is...

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre...

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read...

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we...

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his...

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature...

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win...

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of...

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but...

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity...

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not...

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable...

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as...

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who...

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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