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From Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
- For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
- Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and…
- Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim…
- 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…
- Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
- Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of…
- No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a…
- Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is…
- Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might…
- Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
- Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free…
- Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it…
- The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
- 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…
- In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
- Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
- If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
- To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
- And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men…
- The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of…
- Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do…
- The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to…
- To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does…
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