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Things 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…
- Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that…
- 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…
- It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes…
- 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,…
- To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in…
- 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…
- 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…
- True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can…
- There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the…
- The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
- 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 man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will…
- The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things…
- 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…
- Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
- One should use common words to say uncommon things
- 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…
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