Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

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

“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.”

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”

“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.”

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

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