Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The quotations of
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
1788–1860
18 quotes, most often on Writing, Genius and Patriotism.
- Essays
- The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
EssaysFame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1. Ch. 4: Position, or a Man’s Place in the Estimation of Others, §4-HonorEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
“Psychological Observations”Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Counsels and Maxims, Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 310, as translated by Eric F. J. Payne- Counsels and Maxims, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255
- Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1, Ch. 5, § 9
- The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859), Vol. I, Ch. II
- Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (November 1815)
- The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2 (trans. E. F. J. Payne), p. 230
- On Pantheism as quoted in Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words (1900) by John Kenyon Kilbourn
- Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life”
- The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2, ch. 7 (trans. E. F. J. Payne), p. 74
- “On Style”, The Art of Literature (trans. T. Bailey Saunders)
