Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image ““No man becomes this or that by wishing to be it, however earnestly.”” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.” — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..” — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We have become who we think we need to be and not who we want to be.” — stephen christian Copy Share Image
“while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
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“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.” — Giovanni Della Casa Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized a shocking thing. I couldn't become a man without becoming The Man. Even if I didn't want to.” — Jeffrey Eugenides 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 instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for faith in general, and to prepare the credit for that which was afterwards actually to be offered on credit; just as if, to introduce paper money, we tried to appeal to the fact that the value… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
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, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to the animal kingdom. And if we suppose this to have been done, the last link in the chain would be animal sensibility - that is knowledge -… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common, i.e. it demeans us to a mere exemplar of the species. He, who on the other hand. who wants to be altogether uncommon, that is to say great, must never let a preponderant agitation of will… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“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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