Arthur Schopenhauer World Quotations

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

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

To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

Authority and example lead the world.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

The world is my representation

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.