Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Love, Happiness, and Pain

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Every light can be extinguished. The intellect is a light. Therefore it can, be extinguished

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself.

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.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.

Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there---days when we were younger and fresher than we are now

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.