The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. — 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 man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction… — 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
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.… — 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
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — 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
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — 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
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. — 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
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls. — 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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