Arthur Schopenhauer Pessimism Quotations

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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.

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.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.