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Whole Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim…
- In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my…
- That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that…
- Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it…
- If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they…
- Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
- If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read…
- the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life…
- 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…
- Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
- The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than…
- 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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