Arthur Schopenhauer

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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

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

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.