958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Die allermeiste Gesellschaft ist so beschaffen, dass wer sie gegen die Einsamkeit vertauscht einen guten Handel macht.

Men of very great capacity, will as a rule, find the company of very stupid people preferable to that of the common run; for the same reason that the tyrant and the mob, the grandfather and the grandchildren, are natural allies.

Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

For if the choice were given to any individual between his own destruction and that of the world, I do not need to say where it would land in the great majority.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.- On Religion

Bref, très peu de gens savent réfléchir, mais tous veulent avoir des opinion ;