Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Voltaire exclaims: ‘Oh metaphysics! We have come precisely as far as in the time of the early Druids.’c But what other science… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Kush , Shell Bronze , Lovers Entwined (painting) “Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Thus, because Christian morality leaves animals out of account (of this, more later on), they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and… — 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
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
