Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[...] it is rare for a man who teaches to know his subject thoroughly; for if he studies it as he ought,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It would be a great advantage to a young man if his early training could eradicate the idea that the world has… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your… — 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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