Quote

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Danzig
Twins
Boredom
Indeed
Blessing
Human
Humans
Life
Poles
Twin

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
No one can transcend their own individuality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
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
Image
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation on that works, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
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