A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

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.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

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.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Music is the melody whose text is the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

The word of man is the most durable of all material.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

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.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Quote