Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Finding Happiness, Impossible, Difficult

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, 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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• The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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 happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

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  Happy Life, Men, Heroic

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.322, Oxford University Press

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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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• With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Important, Elements, May

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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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• 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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• When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

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  Perfect, Plot, Looks

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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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• Scoundrels are always sociable.

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  Scoundrels, Human Condition, Sociable

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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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• 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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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. 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.

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  Morning, Silly, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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  Death, Suicide, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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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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• The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

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  Happiness, Way, Miserable

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.12, Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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• 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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• The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Character, Dreamer

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