Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 16

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• If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Essence, Boredom, Would Be

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

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• He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

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  Men, Watches, Use

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.102, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

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  Pain, Character, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

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• We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

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  Self, Deceit, Deceiving

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• The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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  Agreement, Principles, Doe

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.55, Kshetra Books

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• Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

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  Free Gifts, Age, Reincarnation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.146, Kshetra Books

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• Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

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  Men, Solitude, Personal Values

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

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• Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

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  Beautiful, Style, Mind

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• Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

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  War, Passion, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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  Sad, Men, Want

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• That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

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  Subjects, All Things, Knows

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.2, Kshetra Books

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• The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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  Philosophical, Character, Men

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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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• Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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  Art, Work, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.27, Publishdrive

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• Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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  Book, Vedas, India

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• Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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  Country, Winning, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Safety, Evil, Steam Engines

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• It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

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  Philosophical, Men, Discarded

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

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  Animal, Eternal

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• Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

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  Moving, Hands, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “Essays and Aphorisms”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

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  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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• Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Criticize, Nations

  As quoted by Wolfgang Pauli in a letter to Abraham Pais (17 August 1950) published in "The Genius of Science" (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 242,

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• It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

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  Tree, World, Demand

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

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  Stars, Fall, Light

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• A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

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  Men, Needs, Normal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.33, Full Moon Publications

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