Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTo be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFate shuffles the cards and we play.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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 SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHe who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMen are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER