Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.”

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”

“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”

“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.”

“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.”

“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”