Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
German philosopher, best known for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).
(1788 - 1860)
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(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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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.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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A truth that is merely acquired from others only clings to us as a limb added to the body, or as a false tooth, or a wax nose. A truth we have acquired by our our own mental exertions, is like our natural limbs, which really belong to us. - This is exactly the difference between an original thinker and the mere learned man.
[Truth]
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
[Truth]
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
[Capitalism]
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Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
[Change]
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Compassion is the basis of all morality.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred.
[Mornings]
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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.
[Mornings]
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