"The more unintelligent a man is, the less……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
— David Bailey
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
— Henry Adams
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
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