Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering. — 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
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. 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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