3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
