Maxioms by Arthur Schopenhauer
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as read more
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is read more
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can read more
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
