Arthur Schopenhauer
11 quotes.
Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- In such a world as this a man who is rich in himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at Christmastide, while without are the frost and snow of a December night.
- In the good as well as in the evil of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which we take it.
- One should use common words to say uncommon things.
- Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
- Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it.
- Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
- We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how others regard him.