Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 7

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• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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  Philosophical, Liberty, Libertarian

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• To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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  Mistake, Desire, Immortality

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

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  Life, Journey, Religion

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

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• If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

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  Gossip, Silence, Secret

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.43, Publishdrive

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• Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

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  Certain, Existence

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• To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

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  Dream, Depressing, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.31, Publishdrive

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• The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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  Solitude, Mind, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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  Hands, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.341, Oxford University Press

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• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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  Fate, Two, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.29, Full Moon Publications

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• Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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  Depression, Pain, World Suffering

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• A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

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  Writing, Should, Clear

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.20, 谷月社

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

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  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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  Memories, Good Day, Bad Day

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

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  Real, Expression, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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  Eye, Effort, Wicked

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

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• One should use common words to say uncommon things

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  Writing, Use, Common

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.30, Full Moon Publications

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• Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.94, Publishdrive

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• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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  Strong Women, Philosophical, Enemy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.65, Penguin UK

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• Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

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  Men, Needs, Kind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.92, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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  Philosophy, Forget, Materialism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

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  Wise, Stupid, Fire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

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  Pain, Animal, Agony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

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• To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

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  Letting Go, Past, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.53, Publishdrive

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• I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

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  Saws, Admiration, Absurd

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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