Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Only loss teaches us about the value of things.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
For our improvement we need a mirror.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
