Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Artist, Symphony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicide, Nature, Suicidal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

• How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Doe, Ephemeral

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.87, Penguin UK

• Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Gratitude, Grateful, Matter

• Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loss, Perfection, Individuality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.32, Full Moon Publications

• It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicidal, Answers, Consciousness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

• The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Anxiety, Consciousness

  "On the Suffering of the World". As translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

• Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Evil, Hats, Consciousness

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Success, Time

• 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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