Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ”

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. ”

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ”

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ”

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. ”