958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.