To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — 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 be superior (überlegen) to others in real life, the indispensable condition is to be thoughtful and deliberate (überlegt), in other words,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the… — 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
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual. — 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
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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