Arthur Schopenhauer – Page 2

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

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. – Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. – Arthur Schopenhauer

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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