Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

Truth, Through, Three

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Intelligence, Else, Talent

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Morning, Life, Death

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

Death, Life, Greatest

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

Happiness, Pain, Human

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Change, Alone, Eternal

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion, Art, Training

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sympathy, Spring, Almost

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Anger, Heart, Hatred

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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Money, Human

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Alone, Long, Himself

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Vision, Takes, Limits

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Death, Before, After

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Power, Strong, Mind

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

Medical, Stupidity, Doctor

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Alone, Great, Live

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Rather, Boredom, Both

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion, Morality, Basis

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wisdom, Work, Great

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts, Eyes, Face

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Lost, Honor, Means

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

Happiness, Health, Greatest

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

Truth, Opinion, Present

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Good, Read

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

Wise, Done, Same

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 22, 1788

Died: September 21, 1860

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