Arthur Schopenhauer
Pessimist philosophy
Sayings by Arthur Schopenhauer
Every genius is a great child.
The animal enjoys the present without the burden of memory or anxiety about the future; man, on the other hand, is tormented by reflection.
The greatest wisdom is to make the present the object of one's consciousness, so that one is always in the present.
The less a man is burdened by his own will, the more he is capable of objective knowledge.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called health.
The best thing in life is to be born an idiot.
Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if we look at the origin of society.
The only sure way not to be miserable is not to be born.
The value of a man is measured by the extent to which he is willing to submit to the yoke of suffering.
Human life, when viewed in its entirety, is a tragedy; but in its details it has the character of a comedy.
The fundamental error of all previous philosophy has been to regard man as a rational being.
The greatest happiness is not to be born.
The more intelligent a man is, the more pain he will experience.
The chief source of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
The will to live is the root of all suffering.
The state is nothing but a large-scale institution for the protection of property.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
The value of a man is determined by what he is, not by what he has.
The greatest happiness for man is to escape the necessity of being born.
The only original philosophical thought possible is the one that starts from the fact of suffering.