Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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.

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now,

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?