Quotes Of Arthur Schopenhauer Will Change Your Life

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles---for then he is off his guard.

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.