Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Preparation

• 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 opinion, by prejudice

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Prejudices, Discovery

• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Untrue

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Arbitrary

• 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

• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Curiosity, Alchemist

• The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body

• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sleep

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action

• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Training

• 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

• Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Socialism, Socializing

• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politeness

• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Patriotism

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Obeys, Pendulum

• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Obstinacy, Stubbornness

• Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in History

  Tags in Inferior, Hands

• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Intellectuals

• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Nations

• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Melody, Music

Arthur Schopenhauer (111)

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

About

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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