Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 8

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Believe, Men

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• If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

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  Pain, Adversity, Successful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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.

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  Loneliness, Eye, Giving

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

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• Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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  Book, Dry Up, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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  Suffering, Glitter, Human Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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  Animal, Use, World

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

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  Confusion, Desire, Probability

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

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• All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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  Heart, Understanding, Promise

  "The World as Will and Idea".

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• Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

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  Fall, Men, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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

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  Intensity, Intellect, Magnitude

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• Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

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  Something Better

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

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  Stupid, Fate, People

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

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• Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

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  Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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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.

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  Reflection, Roots, Giving

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

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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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• 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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• What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

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  Positive, Happiness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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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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• A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

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  Men, Free Will, Determine

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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.

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  Two, People, Listening

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

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• To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

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  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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  Hurt, Doe, Treats

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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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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