Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
- Arthur Schopenhauer