The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — 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
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 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
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another 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
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — 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
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension;… — 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
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in… — 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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