Quotes

“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” Arthur Schopenhauer

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

“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.” Arthur Schopenhauer