Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of all morality

#Compassion

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

#Honor

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

#Immortality

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

#Journalism

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

#Limits

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

#Limits

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of...

#Limits

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

#Overcoming

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in...

#Opinions

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the...

#Life, #Preparation

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

#Politeness

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

#Reading