Ordinary people merely think of how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
The composer reveals the inmost essence of the world and utters the most profound wisdom in a language which his reason does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist give disclosures about things which she has no idea of when awake.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can control what he wills, but not how he wills.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played unnumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
From every sentence deep, original and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit....In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Have these gentlemen of the scalpel and crucible no notion at all then that they are first and formost men and chemists only secondly? How can you sleep soundly, knowing you have harmless animals under lock and key, in order to starve them slowly to death? Don't you wake up screaming, in the night?
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
In
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
In every page of
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and truth works far and long: let us speak the truth.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Reason is feminine in nature: it will give only after it has received.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius sees things no-one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail, it has the characteristics of a comedy.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing as is achieved by the visible world itself, only with greater concentration, perfection, intention and intelligence; and therefore, in the full sense of the word, it may be called the flower of life.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
I was gripped by the misery of life as
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of major effort.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
The less a man is forced to come into contact with others, the better off he is.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honour.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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