Quotes from Schopenhauer

thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words

Exigir la inmortalidad del individuo es querer perpetuar un error hasta el infinito

muitas vezes, quem sai vencedor de uma disputa deve sua vitória não tanto à correção de seu julgamento na exposição de sua tese, mas, antes, à astúcia e habilidade com que a defendeu.

Noi nu ÅŸtim, în zilele noastre bune ce nenorocire ne preg?teÅŸte destinul tocmai acum: boal?, prigoan?, s?r?cie, mutilare, orbire, nebunie, moarte ÅŸ.a.m.d.

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.