Arthur Schopenhauer

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A spring never free from the pressure of some foreign body at last loses its elasticity; and so does the mind if other people’s thoughts are constantly forced upon it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Arthur Schopenhauer