Famous Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a constant process of dying.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer
