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
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Life is only the mirror into which a man gazes not in order that he may get a reflection of himself, but… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Therefore books do not take the place of experience, because concepts always remain universal, and so do not reach down to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Looking at the turmoil of life from this standpoint we find all occupied with its want and misery, exerting all their strength… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors… — 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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