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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. — 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
“Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.” — 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
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
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
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — 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
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world.… — 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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