Famous Quotes / Arthur Schopenhauer
121 Quotations by Arthur Schopenhauer
- 81. The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- 82. The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- 83. The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same t ...
- 84. The discovery of truth is not prevented as much by the current false appearance of things that misle ...
- 85. The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the s ...
- 86. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- 87. The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals sh ...
- 88. The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- 89. The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
- 90. The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent t ...
- 91. The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
- 92. The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
- 93. The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- 94. The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenaci ...
- 95. The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
- 96. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
- 97. The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
- 98. The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
- 99. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- 100. The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad ...