Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

- Arthur Schopenhauer