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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes


The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer
The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Arthur Schopenhauer