"[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is stru...
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
More Arthur Schopenhauer quotes
"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculo...
"From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to take up one thing...
"The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed...
"Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...
"What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the...
"If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of looking at it, you cannot do better than accustom...
"However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism betwee...
"If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in th...
"A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has t...
"No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
"There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every c...
"Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I ...