It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life. But the terrors of death offer considera...
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring m...
Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as it i...
It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life.
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in it...
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a co...
If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in the least care whether the truth proved to be in fav...