Top 88 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

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.

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.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.