Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Motivational, Sacrifice

• A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in God, Humor

• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Book, Books

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Writing

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Greatness

• We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Imitation, Forfeit

• The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Humor

• One should use common words to say uncommon things

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Age, Humor

  Tags in Aging

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Loss

• Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Talent
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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solitude, Himself

• Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Book

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Book

• I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Book

• The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire

• 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 someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Fundamental, Stranger, Thoughts, Meal

• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Correction

• To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Loneliness

Arthur Schopenhauer (111)

Birth:	22nd February, 1788
Death:	21st September, 1860
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation, in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. In 1820, Schopenhauer became a lecturer at the University of Berlin.

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