Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Danzig
First
Forty
Giving
Aging
Years
Thirty
Life
Philosophical
Age
Commentary
Next
Supply
Give
Text
Firsts
Birthday
More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For our improvement we need a mirror.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life without pain has no meaning.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To call the world God is not to explain it it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Unrest is the mark of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man shows his character best in trifles.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect the second have a much longer duration but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
Arthur Schopenhauer
