Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 6

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• Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, Pantheism, Form

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• Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Marriage, Wedding, Mean

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• A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.41, 谷月社

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Heart, Tears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

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• The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mind, Pleasure, Lasting

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

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• There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Errors, Order

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.49 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doe, Cost, Life Is

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Short Life, Men, Order

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Noise, Pessimism, Form

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inward, Honour, Conscience

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Order, Suffering

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• No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Mean, Progress

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Affection, Remember

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• Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boys, World, Foolish

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• The deep pain that is felt
  at the death of every friendly soul
  arises from the feeling that there is
  in every individual something
  which is inexpressible,
  peculiar to him alone,
  and is, therefore,
  absolutely and irretrievably lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Pain

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Interesting, Mouths

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 2007.

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• Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Certain, Existence

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Pet, Helpful

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• Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wish, Desire, Satisfaction

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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• A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Journey, Religion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Entrepreneur

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

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Able, Pessimism, Bad Things

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

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