Schopenhauer Genius Quotes

#1. The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men; ... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

James Rosenquist

#5. Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot
reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look at a woman's shape to see that she wasn't intended for much mental or physical work.

Jacky Fleming

#7. Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. I'm stone, nothing touches me-nothing.

Amy A. Bartol

#10. Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run
ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

Abraham Lincoln

#11. Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment," he wrote. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."30 Eduard

Walter Isaacson

#14. On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey ... serious Jim Carrey though.

Logan Lerman

#16. The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. 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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#18. I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife.

Jill Bialosky

#19. Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

Michael Jackson

#20. Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

John Newcombe

#22. Virtue cannot be taught, no more than genius; indeed, concepts are as unfruitful for it as for art and of use only as tools.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#23. Genius lives only one storey above madness

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#25. Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones; it radiates its own light while the others only reflect what they receive.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#26. Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#27. The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#28. A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Arthur Schopenhauer

#29. We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#30. Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#31. 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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#32. Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Arthur Schopenhauer