Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad About Life Loss Suffering Sorrow

Life is a constant process of dying.

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Sad About Life Suffering

Human life must be some form of mistake.

— Arthur Schopenhauer
Depressing Sad Sad About Life Depression

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

— Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad About Life

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For our improvement we need a mirror.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

— Arthur Schopenhauer
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