Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Every light can be extinguished. The intellect is a light. Therefore it can, be extinguished.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard… — 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… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The object of the intellect is to light and lead the will on its path, and therefore, the greater the force, impetus… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? — 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
