Arthur Schopenhauer Quotations

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Random]

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Perspective]

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Kindness]

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Truth]

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Religion]

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.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Money]

Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Money]

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Death]

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Age]

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Memory]

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Sleep]

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Manners]

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
	- Arthur Schopenhauer	more quotations on [Change]

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