Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood. — 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
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. — 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
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by… — 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 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
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — 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
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind the… — 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
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him… — 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
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — 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
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
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
“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
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words… — 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… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that the idea of dignity can be applied only in an ironical sense to a being whose will… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part… — 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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