Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
German - Philosopher February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

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

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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer