Quotes by : Arthur Schopenhauer

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted....

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!....

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase....

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love....

There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in....

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings....

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its....

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.