Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body… — 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
As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all… — 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
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
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
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to… — 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
It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation… — 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
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they… — 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
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
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — 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
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
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few 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
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — 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
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything… — 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
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
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the… — 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
Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it,… — 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
“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
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
“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
[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
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
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
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
“[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
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
“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
“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
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![“There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.” quote by Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfe/arthur-schopenhauer-226_crime_there-is-no-vice-of-which-a-man-can-be-g_1328733.jpg)
