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Us 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.
- Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
- ...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is…
- 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…
- There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
- The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they…
- We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded…
- This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our…
- We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
- Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others…
- 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…
- If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
- It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like…
- Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
- It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- 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…
- The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong