958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

There is something in us wiser than our head

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.