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Face, Faces
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Facts
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fame
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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fate & Destiny
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fools, Foolishness
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Friends
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Genius
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
http://www.paulstiles.org/Design/On%20Genius.htm
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
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A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Greatness & Great Things
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Greed
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Happiness
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hate
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Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly antagonistic towards one another and mutually exclusive. A great deal of hatred, indeed, has no other source than a compelled respect for the superior qualities of some other person; conversely, if you were to consider hating every miserable wretch you met you would have your work cut out: it is much easier to despise them one and all. True, genuine contempt, which is the obverse of true, genuine pride, stays hidden away in secret and lets no one suspect its existence: for if you let a person you despise notice the fact, you thereby reveal a certain respect for him, inasmuch as you want him to know how low you rate him
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Originally published in Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2 (1851).
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Honor
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Position, IV
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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Position, I
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Hypocrisy
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ideas
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Identity
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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?
Said to Eduard Grisenbach, nearing his deathhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arthursc.htm
-Arthur Schopenhauer, from The Total Library by Jorge Luis Borges (1999)
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Individuality
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No one can transcend their own individuality.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Books by and about Arthur Schopenhauer