Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is so easy to explain, yet so inexplicable, as it reproduces all the emotions of our inner being without reality, remote from pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Arthur Schopenhauer