Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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.
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
