“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs 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 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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