Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 5

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• There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

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  Wiser

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• Truth is most beautiful undraped.

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  Beautiful, Truth Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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  Philosophical, Willpower, Minus

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• It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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  Freedom, Men

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• Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Firefly

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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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• There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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  Philosophical, Adversity, Doubt

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

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• Time is that in which all things pass away.

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  Time, Passing Away, Time Management

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.28, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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• Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

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  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

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  Love, Freedom, Solitude

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• First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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  Firsts, Truth Is, Outrage

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• We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

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  Speak

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• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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  Pain, Intelligent, World Suffering

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

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• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.35, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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  Positive, Philosophical, Entrepreneur

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

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• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

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  Book, Mean, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.479, Oxford University Press

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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

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  Loneliness, Men, People

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• The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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  Able, Pessimism, Bad Things

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion: a Dialogue”, p.132, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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  Hallmark, Existence, Restlessness

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• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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  Men, Greatness, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Controversy”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Errors, Elderly

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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• Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

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  Depressing, Errors, Today

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