The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The paltry character of most men compels the few who have any merit or genius to behave as though they did not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods.… — 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
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — 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
“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
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to… — 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
“The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country.… — 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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