Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 7

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• Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Mind, Earth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.438, Kshetra Books

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• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Willpower, Minus

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• There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Horse, Real, Quiet

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Sad, Money

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Forget, Materialism

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

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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Roots, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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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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• The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Roots, Principles, Causes

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Depression, Pain, World Suffering

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• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, People, Listening

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.65, Full Moon Publications

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• Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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  Change, Growth, Eternal Love

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.47, Publishdrive

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• Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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  Night, Space, Torches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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  Death, Believe, Men

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• Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Confusion, Desire, Probability

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.32, Publishdrive

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• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

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  Knights, Doctors, Soldier

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• Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

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  Men, Mind, Weakness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

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• Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

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  Life, Taken, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

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  Intensity, Intellect, Magnitude

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• Each day is a little life.

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  Each Day, Littles

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

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

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  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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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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• 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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• What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loneliness, Eye, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.59, Publishdrive

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• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Class, People, Boredom

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