Particular Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

“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

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

“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

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

“[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

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

“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

“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