Quote

With health, everything is a source of pleasure without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

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
Nothing
Whatever
Important
Happiness
Else
Enjoyable
May
Element
Human
Elements
Everything
Source
Humans
Health
Without
Pleasure

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight a woman at eighteen.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
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
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
Image
Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation on that works, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Arthur Schopenhauer