All Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
- No one can transcend their own individuality. Funny
- Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources… Anarchy
- Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is… Accordingly
- The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… Always Finds
- You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other… Absolutely
- The world is my representation Inspirational
- Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends… Account
- Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately All
- Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee.… Ancient
- The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. Agreement
- In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my… Been
- That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely… Always Anxious
- Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes. Beautiful
- When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what… Belief
- To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Coping
- The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made. Life
- Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Certain
- Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers… Absurd
- The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too. All
- Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. Alone
- Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. Accepted
- Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. Fact
- That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are… Achieve
- ...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is… Befalls
- Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what… Better