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Famous Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.”
“Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.”
“Money is human happiness in the abstract.”
“A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.”
“You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.”
“Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.”
“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”
“Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.”
“Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.”
“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”
“Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.”
“What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.”
“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.”
“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.”
“Newspapers are the second hand of history.”
“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.”
“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other”
“Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.”
“Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.”
“Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.”