Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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  It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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  Finding Happiness, Impossible, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.13, Publishdrive

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• A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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  Facts, Pessimist, Optimist

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• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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  Funny, Fate, Destiny

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• We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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  Death, Loss, Teach

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.6, Publishdrive

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• Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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  Men, Ideas, Common Sense

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.38, Full Moon Publications

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• A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

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  Intelligent, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1988). “Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes: Berlin manuscripts (1818-1830)”, Berg Publishers

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

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  Short Life, Men, Order

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• Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

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  Inspirational, Self, Ephemeral

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• Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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  Men, Thinking, Strive

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.20, Full Moon Publications

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• You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

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  Want, Free Will, What You Want

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• To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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  Overcoming, Delight, Coping

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.39, Full Moon Publications

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• A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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  Men, Degrees, Intellect

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.18, Cosimo Classics

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• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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  Relationship, Sympathy, Money

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.54, Publishdrive

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• If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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  Stupid, Reading, Thinking

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• No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

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  Rose

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.648, Oxford University Press

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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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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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  Mean, Eels, Snakes

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• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

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  War, Book, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

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