958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

My body and my will are one.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.