~ 1788 - 1860
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimistic philosophy that emphasized the inherent suffering of existence. He is renowned for his work "The World as Will and Representation," which had a significant influence on 19th-century philosophy and later existential thought.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
If a man is to be liked, he must really be inferior in point of intellect.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Forgetfulness is the only salvation. I would like to forget everything; to forget myself and to forget the world.
Life is a constant process of dying.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.