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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

German - Philosopher | February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

People Brainy Order Like Ourselves

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Music World Melody Whose Text

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Spring People Sympathy Out Almost

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain Sacrifice Pleasure Order Clear

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Good Time Buy Rule Buying Would

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion Someone You Know Want True

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading Thinking Someone Head Own

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change Alone Perpetual Eternal

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

World Rights Double Marry Our Means

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Vision World Limits Person Own

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

Happiness Time Chance Back Next May

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Death You Will Birth Your Before

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