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Man Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same…
- Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
- Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
- A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
- Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
- Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
- Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world…
- 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…
- Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
- 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…
- 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…
- The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
- 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…
- There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his…
- A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his…
- If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so…
- He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and…
- 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…
- The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that…
- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as…
- Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes…
- Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary…
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