958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.