Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
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… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there is no… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
