"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
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"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect."
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"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
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"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"
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"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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
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"Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"No one can transcend their own individuality."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Life without pain has no meaning."
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"Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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
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"Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles"
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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."
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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others."
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"I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Religion is the metaphysics of the masses."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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 other"
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"If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy."
―Arthur Schopenhauer
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