~ Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

[MysteRy]

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

[MysteRy]

In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

[MysteRy]

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.

[MysteRy]

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.

[MysteRy]

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied 'Yes! because the absent friend is yourself and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own and moves according to laws of his own which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.'