Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes.
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.
The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
