Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

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  Facts, Pessimist, Optimist

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

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  Finding Happiness, Impossible, Difficult

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

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

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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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  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.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

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

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• I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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  Long, Noise, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.65, Publishdrive

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

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  Death, Loss, Teach

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.6, 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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• 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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• Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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  Money, Philosophical, Sea

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.57, Publishdrive

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• A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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  Men, Degrees, Intellect

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.18, Cosimo Classics

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

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  Want, Free Will, What You Want

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• Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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  Character, Animal, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive

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

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  Happiness, Way, Miserable

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

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• The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

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  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.12, Publishdrive

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• The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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  Happy, Philosophical, Inspiration

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.15, Cosimo Classics

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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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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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