There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.


Arthur Schopenhauer

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can se...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental cap...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is a...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have sim...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER