That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it… — 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
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — 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
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to… — 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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