Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.