“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
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Famous Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”
Source: The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]
Source: The Wisdom of Life
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”
“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
Source: The Art of Controversy
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.”
Source: Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer
“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”
“To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”
Source: The Wisdom of Life
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Source: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
Source: On the Suffering of the World
Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Source: The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
Source: The Wisdom of Life
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays
Source: The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer