Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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  It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Finding Happiness, Impossible, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.13, Publishdrive

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• A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Facts, Pessimist, Optimist

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• The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

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  Sleep, Life Is, Loan

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.47, Penguin UK

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

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• What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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  Funny, Fate, Destiny

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• Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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  Argument, Rudeness, Eclipse

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Loss, Teach

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.6, Publishdrive

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• A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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  God, Funny Life, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.25, Publishdrive

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• We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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  Men, Ideas, Common Sense

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.38, Full Moon Publications

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• Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

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  Change, Teacher, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.28, Publishdrive

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• The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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  Wisdom, May, Being The Best

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.46, Publishdrive

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• To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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  Envy, Feels, Savour

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• Scoundrels are always sociable.

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  Scoundrels, Human Condition, Sociable

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• We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

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  Views, Numbers, Errors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.22, Publishdrive

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• Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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  Mean, Eels, Snakes

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• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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  Relationship, Sympathy, Money

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.54, Publishdrive

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• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Book, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

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• You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Want, Free Will, What You Want

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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  Morning, Silly, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Way, Miserable

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.12, Arthur Schopenhauer

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