Schopenhauer Quotes
Schopenhauer Quote of the day
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...
The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.
It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them
People's envy shows how unhappy they feel
Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones
And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality
The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands, ' knew Schopenhauer.
we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner