The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

“He who has lost all hope has also lost all fear;”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world!”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Better alone than amongst traitors.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Were I a King, my prime command would be—Leave me alone.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself-so long as other people leave him alone.]”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“As Epictetus says, Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Behind the cross stands the devil.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“If anyone wishes for entertainment, such as will prevent him feeling solitary even when he is alone, let me recommend the company of dogs, whose moral and intellectual qualities may almost afford delight and gratification.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud;”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art; for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way of giving interest to what they write. Herein they are like little dogs; if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art; for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way of giving interest to what they write. Herein”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“For as a rule a man must have worth in himself in order to recognise it and believe in it willingly and freely in others.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Seneca[1] rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,-the readier he is with his tongue.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Nature is not like those bad poets, who, in setting a fool or a knave before us, do their work so clumsily, and with such evident design, that you might almost fancy you saw the poet standing behind each of his characters, and continually disavowing their sentiments, and telling you in a tone of warning: This is a knave; that is a fool; do not mind what he says. But Nature goes to work like Shakespeare and Goethe, poets who make every one of their characters—even if it is the devil himself!—appear to be quite in the right for the moment that they come before us in their several parts; the characters are described so objectively that they excite our interest and compel us to sympathize with their point of view; for, like the works of Nature, every one of these characters is evolved as the result of some hidden law or principle, which makes all they say and do appear natural and therefore necessary. And you will always be the prey or the plaything of the devils and fools in this world, if you expect to see them going about with horns or jangling their bells.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“In the case of a misfortune which has already happened and therefore cannot be altered, you should not allow yourself to think that it might have been otherwise; still less, that it might have been avoided by such and such means; for reflections of this kind will only add to your distress and make it intolerable, so that you will become a tormentor to yourself—[Greek: heautontimoroumeaeos]. It is better to follow the example of King David; who, as long as his son lay on the bed of sickness, assailed Jehovah with unceasing supplications and entreaties for his recovery; but when he was dead, snapped his fingers and thought no more of it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“When, in some dreadful and ghastly dream, we reach the moment of greatest horror, it awakes us; thereby banishing all the hideous shapes that were born of the night. And life is a dream: when the moment of greatest horror compels us to break it off, the same thing happens.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: PergamonMedia

“Every State looks upon its neighbours as at bottom a horde of robbers, who will fall upon it as soon as they have the opportunity.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The life of a fool is worse than death[1].”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

“purse-honora y provecho no caben en un saco.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Works of Arthur Schopenhauer