With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. -Arthur Schopenhauer Great
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 Patriotism
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. -Arthur Schopenhauer Chance
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. -Arthur Schopenhauer Money
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. -Arthur Schopenhauer Men
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. -Arthur Schopenhauer Freedom
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer Power
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. -Arthur Schopenhauer Medical
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. -Arthur Schopenhauer Women
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. -Arthur Schopenhauer Truth
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 Death
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 Age
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 Learning
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. -Arthur Schopenhauer Success
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. -Arthur Schopenhauer Nature
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. -Arthur Schopenhauer Nature
