Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
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.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
