Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Related Quotes:

" Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" 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

" The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" 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

" Compassion is the basis of morality. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" 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

" Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Music is the melody whose text is the world. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. "

Arthur Schopenhauer