Quotes by Schopenhauer

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has...”

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly in...”

“Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cio non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanit dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarr dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.”

“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehension of the many and the various into *one* repre...”

“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the objective consideration just discussed, for I shall be able to express it only ...”

“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even preferable to its existence. Therefore our astonishment at it easily passe...”

“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence."from...”

“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it lies already in the nature of the explanations themselves that they cannot ...”

“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several individuals, the planned cooperation of many thousands, c...”

“Vladimir Kush , Shell Bronze , Lovers Entwined (painting)Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Beca...”

“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Because it is his immortal part that longs for her; it is alw...”

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”

“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”

“Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as . Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.”

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”

“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.”

“To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will brin...”

“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”