Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Man has made the Earth a hell for the animals.

Architecture is frozen music.

For millions and millions of human beings, the true hell is Earth.

The amount of useless rumors a man can bear is inversely proportional to his intelligence.

Beauty is a letter of recommendation that wins our hearts in advance.

Man is fundamentally a terrible and cruel animal. We know him as he has been domesticated and educated by what we know as civilization.

A man's personality determines in advance the measure of his possible fortune.

He who has lost hope has also lost fear: that's what the word 'desperate' means.

The vulgar men have invented social life because it is easier for them to endure others than to endure themselves.

To the one who loses everything, God is still left.

For a happy life, one must always understand 'less unhappy'; that is, bearable. And truly, life has not been given to us to enjoy, but to endure, to pay for it.

The rebellion is the original virtue of man.