Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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.
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
