90+ Famous Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer That Will Make You Appreciate Life A Lot More

Each day is a little life.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

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

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

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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

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.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.