958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Las religiones son como las luciérnagas, para brillar tienen necesidad de oscuridad

Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!

Wer klug ist, wird im Gespräch weniger an das denken, worüber er spricht, als an den, mit dem er spricht.

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Could the completed life course of such a man turn out in any respect, even the smallest, in any happening, any scene, differently from the way it did? – No! is the consistent and correct answer.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

Will is the lord of all worlds: everything belongs to it, and therefore no one single thing can ever give it satisfaction, but only the whole, which is endless.

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.