Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA 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 SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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 SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTruth is most beautiful undraped.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMen are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe world is my idea.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFate shuffles the cards and we play.
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 SCHOPENHAUER