Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

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

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

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Scholars are those who have read in books; but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there---days when we were younger and fresher than we are now.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water—the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
- 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

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

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

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

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer