958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.