Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn’t build one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn’t deserve your affection. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the melody whose text is the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

This our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is–nothing. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Authority and example lead the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart. — Arthur Schopenhauer

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remaIn the masters of the world, and their domInion is suspended only for brief periods. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Unrest is the mark of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The present is the only reality and the only certainty. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is most beautiful undraped. — Arthur Schopenhauer

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self–evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial. — 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

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self–evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self–evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest achievements of The human mind are generally received with distrust. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Human existence is an error…it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract, and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete sets his whole heart on money. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Time is that in which all things pass away. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. — 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

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad. — Arthur Schopenhauer

As a general rule, the longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made. — 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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? — Arthur Schopenhauer

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To be alone is the fate of all great minds–a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. — Arthur Schopenhauer

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable…Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? — Arthur Schopenhauer

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer