Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

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

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.