“The mind is by its nature free, not a slave; only what it does by itself and willingly is successful.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“No one reveals himself as he is; we all wear a mask and play a role. - On Psychology ” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in… — 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
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Any beautiful mind, full of ideas, would always express itself in the most natural, simple and straightforward way, anxious to communicate its… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over… — arthur schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, 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
“However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. — 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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