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...
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.
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.
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.
There is an underlying unity in all things
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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...
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and so immediate that as soon as you are aware of it, it ove...
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...
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quick...
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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...