Arthur Schopenhauer
52 quotations
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
No one can transcend their own individuality.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.