Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 11

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• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Life Is Short, Order

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

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  Class, Ennui, Constant

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• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

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  Memories, Eye, Long Ago

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Body, Expecting

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• The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

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  Life, Men, Progress

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Important, Should

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• Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

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  Doe, Our Actions, Reason

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.35, Full Moon Publications

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• True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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• I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Eye, Light

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• Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

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  Like Love, Doe

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.50, Publishdrive

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Religious, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Needs

  "Welt und Mensch". II, p. 230ff,

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• Man shows his character best in trifles.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Trifles

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• Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

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  Struggle, Majority, Lasts

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• It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Treatment, Trifles

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• Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happens

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Presentation”, p.539, Routledge

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• If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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  Selfish People, Psychology, Selfishness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.48, Publishdrive

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• The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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  Maturity, Men, Eight

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

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  Men, Tunes, Variation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

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  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Redemption

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

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• No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Sake, Subjects

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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