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We forfeit three fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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!

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

- Arthur Schopenhauer