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Intelligence
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Journalism
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Language
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Last Words
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Libraries
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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.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, ch. 22, sct. 257, 1851.
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Life
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Loneliness
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Mankind, Man
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Manners
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Marriage
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Money
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Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Mystery
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Opinion
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Patriotism
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Philosophy
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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
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Photography
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That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Poker
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Books by and about Arthur Schopenhauer