Author of quotes: Arthur Schopenhauer. Page 4

People in its ferocity and mercilessness would not relinquish one tiger and no hyena. - It is likely that the way it is. When you look back in history and see what man is capable of, lose all faith in him... It may go so far that another, perhaps especially in moments hypochondriacal mood, the world seems from the aesthetic side of the Museum of caricatures, from the intellectual - the yellow house, and morally - fraudulent hangout.

Men are naturally indifferent to each other, and women are by nature enemies.

Fundamental flaw of the female character is injustice. It comes nearest way from the above-mentioned lack of intelligence and ingenuity, but also supported more by the fact that they are the weakest creatures are gifted by nature, not by force, but by cunning: hence their instinctive cunning and irresistible tendency to lie.

In the world you can only choose between loneliness and vulgarity.

There is no better means for refreshing the mind, like reading ancient classics; it is worth taking some of them to hand, although half an hour - now I feel refreshed, light weight and purified, lifted and strengthened, as if refreshed by bathing in the pure source.

People are like children in that if they pull, they become naughty.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

A sense of unfitness represents not only the largest but also the only true spiritual suffering: all the other spiritual suffering can be not only healed, but immediately and completely suppressed the confident consciousness of self-worth. Who is quite sure she can quietly endure the suffering that otherwise would have driven to despair, - he may, without joy and without friends to be self-sufficient and rely on himself - so powerful is the consolation that is born in us from a living belief in our own values - and therefore it is necessary to prefer all the benefits in the world.
On the contrary, in the consciousness of his own nothingness can console, nothing in the world; it can only be masked by deception and buffoonery, or to drown out the commotion of life, but also that and another - for a while.

Death is only exaggerated, sharp, glaring, flagrant expression of what the world itself is entirely.

Peace is impossible without time, but time is impossible without peace.

As the weight of his own body wear without noticing its weight, feeling every extraneous weight, so do not notice our own deficiencies and shortcomings and see only strangers.

Human life is not, in fact, neither long nor short, as in essence that is what she is and serves as a scale by which we measure all other time.

The first commandment of a woman's honour is not to engage in extramarital cohabitation with men, that every man was compelled to marriage to surrender.

Let's be honest: no matter how closely tied people friendship, love and marriage, quite honestly people want good only to yourself, but perhaps even their children.