Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

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

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.