Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

"“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”"
176 Quotes
"“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"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
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"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
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who 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
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