Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image ““For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of… — 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 proper hell… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There is a reason Dante made betrayal the deepest level of Hell” — Dr. Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“ 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims.” — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
“To do nothing is to welcome Dante’s hell - cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“I thought: Now I am like Dante. I walk through hell, but I am not burning.” — Edith Hahn Beer a Copy Share Image
“The language and the atmosphere there reminded me of Dante's Inferno.” — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
“Surreal. It was his word of the week. "This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.” — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
“And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle… — Jane Rule 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