Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 13

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• Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  True Life, Way, Language

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• Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

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  Religion, Mass, Metaphysics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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  Plato, Writing, Development

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.417, Courier Corporation

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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  Years, People, Giving

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• When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

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  Believe, Men, Wish

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• To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Forever, Desire

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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  Animal, Firsts, First Time

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.99, Publishdrive

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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  Mean, Reality, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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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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• Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

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  Men, Europe, Answers

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• In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, Heart

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• Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Matter

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• If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

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  Hate, Men, Energy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.24, 谷月社

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• There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

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  Sacrifice, London, Monogamy

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• The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

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  Lying, Clouds, Feet

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• Human life must be some form of mistake.

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  Life, Mistake, Form

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• To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

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  Past, Long, Expectations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• ...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

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  Important, Stand Alone, Ends

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.20, Cosimo Classics

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• My body and my will are one.

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  Body

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.96, 谷月社

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• He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

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  Men, Two, Three

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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  Philosophical, Science, Data

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• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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  Fear, Educational, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

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  Language, Difficulty, Translations

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• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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  Hurt, Doe, Treats

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

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  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

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