958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.