Philosophische Zitate von Arthur Schopenhauer über das Leben

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind.

Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.