958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man