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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.
— Ernst Hanfstaengl
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything is entirely in Nature, and Nature is entire in everything. She has her center in every brute. - SCHOPENHAUER The
— Joyce Carol Oates
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
... a hundred fools together will not make one wise man.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Unrest is the mark of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
That which has been exists no more; it exists as little as that which has never been.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
To be alone is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description.
— P.G. Wodehouse
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Human life must be some form of mistake.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Scoundrels are always sociable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Each day is a little life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
For what is not seen is as good as what does not exist.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.
— Alain De Botton
Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom ... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Every Man Mistakes the Limits of His Vision For The Limits Of The World..
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.
— Irvine Welsh
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Better alone than amongst traitors.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Man shows his character best in trifles.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing
that it philosophizes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
that it philosophizes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;
— Arthur Schopenhauer
the world is my idea
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
No one can transcend their own individuality.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The majority of men ... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and ... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
— Arthur Schopenhauer