# Arthur Schopenhauer's best quotes

From The World as Will and Representation, Parerga and Paralipomena and the Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: Schopenhauer's best-known lines with sources.

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- Jan 25, 2024 · Kathrin Schuster
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## Top 13

1. **The world is my representation.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The World as Will and Representation, Book One, § 1.
2. **Fate shuffles the cards, and we play.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
3. **Every nation mocks the others, and all of them are right.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, chapter IV.
4. **Usually it is only loss that teaches us the value of things.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
5. **Consonants are the skeleton of words, and vowels their flesh.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Parerga and Paralipomena II, § 313.
6. **Reading means thinking with someone else's head instead of your own.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Parerga and Paralipomena II, § 267.
7. **What the heart resists, the head will not let in.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The World as Will and Representation, vol. II, chapter 19.
8. **A man's life consists in dancing into the arms of death, fooled by hope.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The World as Will and Representation.
9. **It is precisely in small things, where people don't watch themselves, that they show their character.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
10. **Hope is confusing the desire for something to happen with its probability.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Parerga and Paralipomena II, § 324.
11. **What makes people sociable is their inability to bear solitude, and themselves in it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Parerga and Paralipomena, Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
12. **What people commonly call fate is mostly just their own foolish pranks.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
13. **The brain thinks as the stomach digests.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
14. **All things are glorious to see, but terrible to be.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, on the ages of life.

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