Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

Life is a constant process of dying.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.