Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties

Arthur Schopenhauer

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Arthur Schopenhauer