Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract. He, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor has not to be won, it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading that didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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 at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit,.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart, contempt from the head, and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment, a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make, for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice that suicide is wrong, when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer