"Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
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"The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1ridicule 2 opposition 3 accepted as self-evident."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it."
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"The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Intellect is invisible to the man who has none."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind."
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"A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer"
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"This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of
it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"For our improvement we need a mirror."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner."
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"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
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"A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?"
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