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Famous Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
“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.”
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”
“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
“Money is human happiness in the abstract.”
“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.”