Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”

“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.”

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”

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

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”

“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”