Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

1788-1860, German Philosopher
quotes
85
topics
12
Origin
Topic
“A word too much always defeats its purpose.”
Words
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Change
“No one can transcend their own individuality.”
Individuality
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Loneliness
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Solitude
“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
Honor
“Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.”
Style
“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”
Language
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Politeness
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
Conflict
“The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”
Certainty
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Happiness
“To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.”
Marriage
“To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.”
Correction
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Death and Dying
“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”
Friends and Friendship
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
Sacrifice
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
Fools and Foolishness
“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”
Detail
“Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.”
Vengeance
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
Greatness
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
Desire
“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
Imitation
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
Relationships
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
Vision
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
Action
“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”
Life and Living