That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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