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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ability
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Absurdity
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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
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Action(s)
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Adversity
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Age
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume I, 1851
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Authors & Writing
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Boredom
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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Bravery
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Position, IV
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Certainty
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Change
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Character
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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Communism
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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
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Conflict
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Control
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism, 1851
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Curiosity
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Death
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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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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 dearth.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Depression
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Human existence must be a kind of error...it may be said of it, 'it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens'.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Desires
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Education
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Expectation
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Face, Faces
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Books by and about Arthur Schopenhauer