Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.