958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Life and dreams are leaves of the same book.

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none?For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.

... everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: "Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives.

Bei Abwesenheit großer Leiden quälen uns die kleinsten Unannehmlichkeiten.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

So treibt das Bedürfnis der Gesellschaft, aus der Leere und Monotonie des eigenen Innern entsprungen, die Menschen zueinander; aber ihre vielen widerwärtigen Eigenschaften und unerträglichen Fehler stoßen sie wieder voneinander ab.