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The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Studies in Pessimism (1890)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
The World as Will and Representation (1819)
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.
The World as Will and Representation (1819)
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!
Parerga und paralipomena (1851)
How every line is of such strong, determined, and consistent meaning! And on every page we encounter deep, original, lofty thoughts, while the whole world is suffused with a high and holy seriousness.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Our susceptibility to pain is wellnigh infinite; but that to pleasure has narrow limits.
To the one type, humanity is a non-ego; to the other, "myself once more."
On the Basis of Morality (1840)
The little honesty existing among authors is to be seen in the outrageous way in which they misquote from the writings of others.
On Authorship; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)