Schopenhauer Quotes

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresi...

....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of t...

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been fo...

This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would lea...

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did...

I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where ...

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and devia...

we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer.

In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been me...

Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts,...

The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolut...

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the...

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its...

What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only...

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, ...

We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena...

It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outwei...

[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenev...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are ...

From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of ...

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's act...

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two fa...

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For inte...

If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of...

However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way o...

A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these ...

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escap...

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would b...