Best Arthur Schopenhauer Proverbs
- There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The… All
- Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in… Accompanied
- Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of… Age
- If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they… Carried
- What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. Endure
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast… Accumulate
- There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? Alone
- If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to… Absurd
- In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… All
- Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present… Beautiful
- Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter… Benefit
- A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about… Author
- The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. All
- As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors… Age
- There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the… All
- In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. Complete
- I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people. Described
- We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the… Divide
- I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away.… Absent
- Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur… Absurd
- Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. Affection
- A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. Age
- That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by… Accomplished
- Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. Attacked
- The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet. Clouds
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