958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Pride... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.