958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of disappointment.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.