Top 10 Arthur Schopenhauer zitiert Ideen und Inspiration

In the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.