Best Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
1- “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
2- “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
3- “The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
4- “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
5- “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
6- “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
7- “This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
8- “Consider the Koran… this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
9- “We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
10- “To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
11- “No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
12- “Life is a constant process of dying.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
13- “The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
14- “What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
15- “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
16- “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
17- “Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
18- “Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
19- “After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
20- “The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
21- “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
22- “It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
23- “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
24- “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
25- “Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
26- “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
27- “Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
28- “Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
29- “If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
30- “We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
31- “There is something in us that is wiser than our head.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
32- “Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
33- “The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
34- “The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
35- “Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
36- “There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
37- “Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
38- “You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
39- “Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
40- “A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
41- “Scoundrels are always sociable.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
42- “Life without pain has no meaning.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
43- “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
44- “Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
45- “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
46- “The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
47- “No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
48- “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
49- “If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading…he gradually loses the capacity for thinking…This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
50- “Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
