18 beautiful quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Sc...
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is ...
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is...
“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that th...
“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only t...
“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
“The art ofnotreading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the att...
“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existin...
