Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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