Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

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The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present…

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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words…

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Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only…

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A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in…

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“Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely…

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The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words…

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“What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the…

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“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either…

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really…

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“A constant flow of thoughts expressed by other people can stop and deaden your own thought and your own initiative…. That is…

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for…

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“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and so immediate that as soon as you are aware of it, it overshadows and obscures all other problems and aims; and when you then see how men, with a few rare exceptions, have no clear awareness of this…

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“Any beautiful mind, full of ideas, would always express itself in the most natural, simple and straightforward way, anxious to communicate its…

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“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could…

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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher,…

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“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several individuals, the planned cooperation of many thousands, civilization, the State; and then, science, the storing up of previous experience, the summarizing into one concept of what is common, the communication of truth, the spreading of error, thoughts and…

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“What is knowledge? it is primarily and essentially idea. What is idea? A very complicated physiological process in the brain of an…

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“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The…

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“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the…

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“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of…

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“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to take up one thing, must drop everything else, there follows not only the intellect’s distraction, but also its *forgetfulness*. Most of what it has dropped it never takes up again, especially as the taking up again…

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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic…

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“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for faith in general, and to prepare the credit for that which was afterwards actually to be offered on credit; just as if, to introduce paper money, we tried to appeal to the fact that the value…

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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which…

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“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any…

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

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

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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…

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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that…

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“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to the animal kingdom. And if we suppose this to have been done, the last link in the chain would be animal sensibility - that is knowledge -…

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In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that…

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“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common, i.e. it demeans us to a mere exemplar of the species. He, who on the other hand. who wants to be altogether uncommon, that is to say great, must never let a preponderant agitation of will…

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“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es…

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