Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. — 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
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — 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
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
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — 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
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in… — 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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