It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
Arthur SchopenhauerSexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
Arthur SchopenhauerI constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.
Arthur Schopenhauer