Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“animal and plant are the descending fifth and third of man, the inorganic kingdom being the lower octave. The full truth of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In endless space countless luminous spheres, round each of which some dozen smaller illuminated ones revolve, hot at the core and covered… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — 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
“To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — 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
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
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — 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. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and… — 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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