Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur SchopenhauerMen are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur SchopenhauerPride is an established conviction of oneโs own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
Arthur Schopenhauer