It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock. Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes From Arthur Schopenhauer If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. Arthur Schopenhauer boredom essence would-be The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Arthur Schopenhauer novelists writing interesting Music is the melody whose text is the world. Arthur Schopenhauer philosophical music wisdom For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer opposites writing giving A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. Arthur Schopenhauer men book thinking Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. Arthur Schopenhauer black giving night To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. Arthur Schopenhauer first-impression real judging One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited. Arthur Schopenhauer life-is-short order book In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Arthur Schopenhauer philosophical wisdom heart Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! Arthur Schopenhauer philosophical money winning There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. Arthur Schopenhauer thinker differences men What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others. Arthur Schopenhauer loneliness eye giving A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life. Arthur Schopenhauer journey life religion I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour. Arthur Schopenhauer admiration absurd saws It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race. Arthur Schopenhauer race men sex The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey. Arthur Schopenhauer fate eye mean There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do. Arthur Schopenhauer pills healing giving The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Arthur Schopenhauer philosophical desire men To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter. Arthur Schopenhauer use stones people There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. Arthur Schopenhauer horse real quiet
