Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Arthur Schopenhauer quotes, Arthur Schopenhauer sayings, and Arthur Schopenhauer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. Arthur Schopenhauer
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner... if I let it slip from my tongue, I am its prisoner.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Compassion is the basis of all moralityArthur Schopenhauer
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.Arthur Schopenhauer
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.Arthur Schopenhauer
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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.Arthur Schopenhauer
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No one can transcend their own individuality.Arthur Schopenhauer
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received withdistrust.Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.Arthur Schopenhauer
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.Arthur Schopenhauer
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The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.Arthur Schopenhauer
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone … if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.Arthur Schopenhauer