"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts."
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"Life is a constant process of dying."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"One should use common words to say uncommon things"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
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"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
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"Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so."
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"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is something in us that is wiser than our head."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."
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"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Life is a business that does not cover the costs."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity."
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"The majority of men are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and are not accessible to reason, but only to authority."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
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"What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact."
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"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Restlessness is the hallmark of existence."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The present is the only reality and the only certainty."
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"No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct"
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"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things"
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