Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[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 Image
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other — 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
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