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.

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  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.

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  Finding Happiness, Impossible, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.13, 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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  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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• A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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  Facts, Pessimist, Optimist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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  Men, Thinking, Strive

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.20, Full Moon Publications

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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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• 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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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

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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 present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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  Reality, Certainty

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• The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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  Life, Pigs, Tree

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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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• 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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• 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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• We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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  Existentialism, Episodes, Regard

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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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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• No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

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  Rose

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.648, Oxford University Press

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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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• 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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