Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Suicide, Person

• Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

• Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Anger

• He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Love

• Not to go to the theatre is like making one’s toilet without a mirror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Age

• There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Age, Funny

• After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Death

• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Youth

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Limitations

• Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Treat, Prince, First, Speak

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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