Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788-1860) German philosopher. Quotes

Pride... Is the direct appreciation of oneself.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

A person should never try to purchase pleasure at the cost of pain, or even at the risk of incurring it.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perverseness and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Money is like sea water. The more we drink, the thirstier we become.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Just like an immense but disordered library is not as useful as a small but well arranged one, so is the greatest amount of knowledge that is not elaborated by our own thoughts worth much less than a much smaller amount that has been thoroughly utilized.

As the biggest library, if it is in disorder, is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge, but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.