Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into — 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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