958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.