Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
You can also look upon our life as an episode unprofitably disturbing the blessed calm of nothingness.
If we are distracted and read thoughtlessly, and then realize that we have indeed taken in all the words, but no concepts.
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
Our memory of joys and sorrows is always imperfect, and they become a matter of indifference to us as soon as they are over.
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.
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 met ...
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom ... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love ... can never pass away and become nothing.
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Music is so easy to explain, yet so inexplicable, as it reproduces all the emotions of our inner being without reality, remote from pain.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;