Quotes by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learnin >>

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering infl >>

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than hi >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspir >>

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. >>

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they ca >>

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Schopenhauer, Arthur