Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

although the absurd, as a rule, predominates, and it seems impossible that the voice of the individual can ever penetrate through the chorus of the befooling and the befooled, there yet remains to the genuine works of every age a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence...

Wir verleben unsre schönen Tage, ohne sie zu bemerken: erst wenn die schlimmen kommen, wünschen wir jene zurück.

Time is merely the spread-out and piecemeal view that an individual being has of the Ideas.

Nicht was die Dinge objektiv und wirklich sind, sondern was sie für uns, in unserer Auffassung, sind, macht uns glücklich oder unglücklich.

O, wie wenig muss doch einer zu denken gehabt haben, damit er soviel hat lesen können!

O horizonte intelectual do homem normal pode até ultrapassar o do animal - cuja existência, sem nenhuma consciência do futuro e do passado, é inteiramente presente -, mas não está tão distante deste quanto se supõe.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n fikirlerine a??r? derecede önem vermek, herkeste var olan bir manyakl?k

Si se pudiese castrar a todos los canallas y encerrar en conventos a todas las muchachas tontas, dotar de un harén a todos los hombres de carácter noble, y de verdaderos hombres a todas las muchachas inteligentes y sensatas, pronto nacería una generación que eclipsaría la época de Pericles.

Hay que leer tan sólo cuando se seca la fuente de los propios pensamientos; lo cual sucede con frecuencia aun a las mejores cabezas.

Ehrwürdig ist die Wahrheit; nicht was ihr entgegensteht.

Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.

every human individual be aware of the inescapable and arbitrary suffering which is set off by the very existence of the will and refrain from using the imaginative power of our mind to envision it otherwise.

Leer es pensar con la cabeza de otro en lugar de con la propia.

No se acude al matrimonio en busca de una conversación ingeniosa, sino para engendrar hijos; el matrimonio es la alianza de dos corazones, no de dos cerebros.

Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it.

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen.

La conmiseración con los animales está íntimamente unida a la bondad de carácter de tal suerte, que se puede afirmar de seguro que quien es cruel con los animales no puede ser buena persona

Der Reichtum gleicht dem Seewasser: je mehr man davon trinkt, desto durstiger wird man. - Dasselbe gilt vom Ruhm.

Gemlemek zorunday?z göÄŸsümüzdeki yüreÄŸimizi. -Homeros, Ilyada

In their hearts women think that it is the men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it – if possible during their husband's life, but, at any rate, after his death

Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think you have an audience of old women in front of you?

The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race

Tan sólo escribe cosas dignas de ser leídas el que únicamente escribe para decir algo.

C? îns? un patron absolut tic?los precum Hegel, a c?rui întreag? pseudofilozofare a fost de fapt o amplificare monstruoas? a argumentului ontologic, a c?utat s?-I apere pe acesta împotriva criticii lui Kant constituie o alian?? de care însuÅŸi argumentului ontologic i s-ar face ruÅŸine, oricât de puÅ£in are el de-a face cu ruÅŸinea.