Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

- On Religion

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

حماقت بزرگی است که آدمی به منظور برنده شدن در بیرون٬ در درون ببازد.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds — a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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 quickly on cause.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.