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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

- 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

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer