We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent… — 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
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — 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
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension;… — 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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