Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they… — 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
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the… — 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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