Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 12

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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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• Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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  Time, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.88, Publishdrive

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

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  Suffering, Needs

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Sad, Death, Suicide

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

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• Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

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  Past, Reality, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

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  Moving, Thinking, Law

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1896). “The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers”

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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  Death, Retirement, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.39, Publishdrive

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• A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

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  Men, Giving, Watches

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.450, Oxford University Press

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• Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

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  Men, Interest, Subjective

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.99, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Lying

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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  Men, Way, Rebellious

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• 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.

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  Feet, Air, Support

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

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  Ignorance, Riches, Found

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• If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

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  Law, Feelings, Fusion

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• It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

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  Vision, Tools, Looks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

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  Animal, Men, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.590, Courier Corporation

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• Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

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  Giving, Pessimism, Reason

  Arthur, Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.55, Aegitas

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• A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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  Sad, Men, Looks

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• We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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  Hands, Wish, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.31, 谷月社

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