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Present Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
- The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
- 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…
- There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
- The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being…
- 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…
- Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to…
- The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which…
- The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal…
- Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell…
- Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present…
- 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.…
- The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of…
- ...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an…
- To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
- The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the…
- The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon