Arthur Schopenhauer

"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"One should use common words to say uncommon things"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

""Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed." —Arthur Schopenhauer"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

- 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 first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Good morning! Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

- 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

"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary on it"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time; great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The first fifty years give us the text; the next thirty provide the commentary."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Wir denken selten an das, was wir haben, aber immer an das, was uns fehlt."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Wir denken selten an das, was wir haben, aber immer an das, was uns fehlt"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Style is the physiognomy of the mind."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The first thirty years of life give us the text: the next thirty years supply the commentary."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Shame on such a morality 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