Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

German - Philosopher February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

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

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

Intelligence, Talent, Genius, See, Hit

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Arthur Schopenhauer

Age, Remember, Speed, You, Hill, Over

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

Life, Morning, Death, Day, Sleep, Youth

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

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

Happiness, Pain, Boredom, Two, Human

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. Arthur Schopenhauer

Love, Freedom, Man, Alone, Solitude, He

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Arthur Schopenhauer

Great, Men, Solitude, Great Men, Build

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

Medical, Stupidity, Lawyer, Doctor, Sees

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

Life, Man, Death, World, Suicide, Own

Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion, Morality, Basis

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, Truth Is, Weakness, Opinion, More

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

Happiness, Health, Sacrifice, Kind, Any

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

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

Great, Alone, Live, Fate, Souls

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, Abstract, Who

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer

Death, Reunion, Resurrection, Parting

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature, Human Nature, Human, Politeness

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Past, Law, Rest, Opinion, Distance

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. Arthur Schopenhauer

Will, Intellect, Vulgarity, Minus

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. Arthur Schopenhauer

Man, Looking, Looking Forward, Enjoy

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

Heart, Anger, Head, Hatred, Affair

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Arthur Schopenhauer

Education, Reading, Trouble, Never, Than

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

People, Sympathy, Spring, Out, Almost

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. Arthur Schopenhauer

You, Know, Opinion, Sight, True, Someone

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. Arthur Schopenhauer

Positive, Life, Freedom, Pain, Element

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

Age, Great, You, Head, Human, Air

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. Arthur Schopenhauer

Face, First, Impression, Only, Us, Makes

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Endure, Us, Interested, Ourselves

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