Arthur Schopenhauer

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For our improvement we need a mirror.

Arthur Schopenhauer