top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Truth quotes
"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
Explore more quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
bottom of page