If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Selfishness]

Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Socializing and Socialism]

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Solitude]

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Stubbornness]

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Stupidity]

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Style]

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Suffering]

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Suicide]

Time is that in which all things pass away.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Time and Time Management]

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.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Truth]

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Vengeance]

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Vision]

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Patriotism]

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Perspective]

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Philosophers and Philosophy]

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Photography]

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Politeness]

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Prejudice]

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Relationships]

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer - [Repetition]