Arthur Schopenhauer Way Quotations

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up...

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met...

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.