958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.