It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer View this quote
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions. Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. Arthur Schopenhauer
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it. Arthur Schopenhauer
It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them. Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a great deal of knowledge without its giving him the least power, while another possesses supreme authority but next to no knowledge. Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a constant process of dying. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live. Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
February 22nd, 1788 - September 21st, 1860