“Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.”
Source: Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer
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Famous Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)
“Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.”
“Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.”
“Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
Source: 101 Facts of life
Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Source: The Wisdom of Life
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
Source: The Wisdom of Life
Source: 101 Facts of life
“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”
“Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Source: 101 Facts of life