"Compassion is the basis of morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"One should use common words to say uncommon things."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Animals hear about death for the first time when they die."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Truth is most beautiful undraped."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Better alone than amongst traitors."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The life of the individual is only borrowed from that of the species."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

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