Top 10 arthur schopenhauer quotes ideas and inspiration

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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.

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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

It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the dream characters dream too.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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

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

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Life is a constant process of dying.

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

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.