Music is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERI have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is a constant process of dying.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTreat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAfter your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER