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Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Ability category:
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Activity category:
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Aging category:
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Anticipation category:
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Books category:
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up... (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Books category:
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Boredom category:
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Change category:
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Communication category:
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Desire category:
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Destiny category:
It's the niceties that make the difference, fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Earth category:
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Emotion category:
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Fame category:
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. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Friendship category:
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Genius category:
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Greatness category:
To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Greatness category:
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Happiness category:
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Happiness category:
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Happiness category:
The most general survey shows that the foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Humour category:
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Hypocrisy category:
With people of only moderate ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Importance category:
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Intellect category:
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Intellect category:
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Intellect category:
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Interest category:
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Knowledge category:
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Life category:
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Life category:
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Limitations category:
Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Loneliness category:
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Masters category:
We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages – stand quietly before them and wait until they speak to us. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Money category:
Money is like seawater. The more we drink, the thirstier we become. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Money category:
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. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Morality category:
Compassion is the basis of morality. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Music category:
Music is the melody whose text is the world. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Patriotism category:
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Possessions category:
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Power category:
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Problems category:
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Prosperity category:
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Recognition category:
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Religion category:
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Renewal category:
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Sacrifice category:
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Sadness category:
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Satisfaction category:
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Searching category:
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Sleep category:
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Solitude category:
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Suffering category:
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Suffering category:
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Teaching category:
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Thinking category:
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Thought category:
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Truth category:
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Winning category:
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Writing category:
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer - From the Writing category:
Journalists are like dogs; whenever anything moves they begin to bark. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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