When you're buying books, you're... by Arthur Schopenhauer | We Heart Quotes

Will Music philosopher Ethics Compassion

When you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Eyes

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Error

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Conversation Right Men Now

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Death

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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