Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”

“To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.”

“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”

“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”

“National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.”

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.”

“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”