It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. — 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
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
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What was it that led the Cynics to repudiate pleasure in any form, if it was not the fact that pain is,… — 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
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all… — 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
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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