Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Faces, Face
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Wisdom
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Cheerfulness, Happiness
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Education
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Politeness, Manners
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.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Nation, Nations, Nationality, Nationalism
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard.—It is in insignificant matters, and in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others, and denies nothing to itself.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Character
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Time Management
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Words
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Greatness
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Fools, Audiences, Foolishness
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Fortune, Change, Luck, Time Management, Value of a Day
It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.
—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 to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Libraries, Disorder, Knowledge
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Joy, Love
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Religion
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Intelligence, Existence, Men
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Ability
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Character
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Style
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Boredom
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Conflict
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Desire, Desires
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, and to a certain extent sacred.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Morning
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Boredom
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Truth, Age
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Life
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Generations
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Bravery
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Perspective, Philosophy, Dreams, Vision
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher, Scholar
- Immanuel Kant Prussian German Philosopher
- Wilhelm von Humboldt German Statesman, Scholar
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
- Martin Heidegger German Existential Philosopher
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte German Philosopher
- Johann Gottfried Herder German Critic, Poet
- Moses Mendelssohn German Jewish Philosopher
- Friedrich Schiller German Poet
- Hannah Arendt German-American Political Theorist
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