As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Arthur Schopenhauer

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer