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 SCHOPENHAUERThe more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
-
-
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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 -
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
The world is my idea.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Each day is a little life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
I 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 SCHOPENHAUER -
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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 -
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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 -
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER