Arthur Schopenhauer Quotations | Page 3

Motives are causes experienced from within.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.