Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
-
-
To 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 SCHOPENHAUER -
A 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 SCHOPENHAUER -
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
One should use common words to say uncommon things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Each day is a little life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER