Quotes by Schopenhauer

“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.”

“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.”

“Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control.”

“Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.”

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.”

“With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

“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.”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.”

“(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.”

“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.”

“Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?”

“Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.”

“It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.”

“In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”

“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.”