Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer