Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

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.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

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

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.