Music is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is a constant process of dying.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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 SCHOPENHAUERHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTruth is most beautiful undraped.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFate shuffles the cards and we play.
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 SCHOPENHAUER