Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.