Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh…

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the…

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable…

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax…

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness…

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom…

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to…

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability…

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his…

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of…

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as…

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong…

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present…

After your death you will be what you were before your birth…

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it…