Arthur Schopenhauer

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”

“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.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”

“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.”

“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

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

“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”

“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”

“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.”

“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”