Schopenhauer Quotes
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.
Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.