Top 100 Quotes About Arthur Schopenhauer
#1. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Ray Kurzweil
#2. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, "Writers should use common words to say uncommon things." When
Mary Embree
#3. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of resurrection. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, German philosopher
Bernd Heinrich
#4. Arthur Schopenhauer: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident
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#5. The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person lives in a world of beneficent events, whose goodness matches his own. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, The highest law is love, the love that is compassion,
Bohumil Hrabal
#9. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public.
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#10. A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
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#11. Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
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#12. What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
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#13. Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past.
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#14. That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
Arthur Schopenhauer
#15. To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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#17. Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.
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#18. The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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#20. Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
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#21. Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
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#22. Time is merely the spread-out and piecemeal view that an individual being has of the Ideas.
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#24. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
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#26. The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
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#27. Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge.
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#28. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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#29. There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
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#30. Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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#32. Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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#33. If we are distracted and read thoughtlessly, and then realize that we have indeed taken in all the words, but no concepts.
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#34. The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech ... As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere ... When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
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#35. I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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#36. It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
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#37. The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
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#38. All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding.
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#39. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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#40. Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to
procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
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#43. For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.
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#44. I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
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#45. It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for
space has no before, after, or now,
Arthur Schopenhauer
#46. Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
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#48. As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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#49. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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#51. It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
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#54. Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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#56. I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
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#57. The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
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#61. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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#62. Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
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#63. It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer
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#65. The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
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#66. No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
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#67. A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles
for then he is off his guard.
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#68. Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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#69. Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I - I - I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.
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#70. Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.
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#71. Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.
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#72. Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
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#74. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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#76. A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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#77. Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial
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#78. Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge.
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#79. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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#80. I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
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#82. The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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#83. Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
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#85. Our memory of joys and sorrows is always imperfect, and they become a matter of indifference to us as soon as they are over.
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#86. There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.
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#88. ...officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by the system of rank and distinction.
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#89. The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;
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#90. Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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#91. Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long - a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man,
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#92. In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world!
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#93. It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
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#94. A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten
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#95. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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#97. Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
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#98. This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
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#99. It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the
dream characters dream too.
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#100. There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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