958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other