Popular Motivational & Inspirational Quotes by Arthur schopenhauer
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
