The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and… — 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… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the… — 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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