"Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever."
Read quote
5 likes
Quote collection
Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (page 19 of 29)
571 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold."
Read quote
5 likes
"The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near."
Read quote
5 likes
"To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived."
Read quote
5 likes
"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
Read quote
5 likes
"It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock."
Read quote
5 likes
"Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience."
Read quote
5 likes
"What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves."
Read quote
5 likes
"Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection."
Read quote
5 likes
"The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal."
Read quote
5 likes
"If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little."
Read quote
5 likes
"The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once."
Read quote
5 likes
"A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true."
Read quote
5 likes
"[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres."
Read quote
5 likes
"For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it."
Read quote
5 likes
"Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter."
Read quote
5 likes
"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited."
Read quote
5 likes
"What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education."
Read quote
5 likes
"It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."
Read quote
5 likes
"It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions."
Read quote
5 likes