Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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