Arthur Schopenhauer

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great…

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and…

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people…

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal…

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first…

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude…

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one…

Music is the melody whose text is the world…

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian…

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head…

To live alone is the fate of all great souls…

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals…

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by…

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in…

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone…