Arthur Schopenhauer
52 quotations
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.