Quotes by Schopenhauer

“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller ...”

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”

“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 ...”

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of...”

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”

“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”

“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”

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

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

“Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. T...”

“You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.”

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”

“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.”

“If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.”