Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself and he exists only in your head whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own and moves according to laws of his own which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.

Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

One should use common words to say uncommon things