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Own Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
- What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
- No one can transcend their own individuality.
- 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…
- The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of…
- How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own,…
- Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the…
- What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
- One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
- What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
- A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of…
- A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
- I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
- Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed…
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in…
- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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