Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Retirement, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.39, Publishdrive

• A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

• For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Opposites, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.18, 谷月社

• 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

• 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

• Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Style, Currency

• Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Night, Giving, Black

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.68, Arthur Schopenhauer

• What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Sublime, World

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.86, Publishdrive

• Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Giving, Wish

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Years, People, Giving

• 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

• There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Healing, Giving, Pills

  "Neue Paralipomena (New Paralipomena)". Essay by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1893.

• The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Years, Giving

• It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sex, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.124, Arthur Schopenhauer

• Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Pessimism, Reason

  Arthur, Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.55, Aegitas

• To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Teaching, Philosophical, Learning

• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and
  willingly give up life itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving Up, Men, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.253, Courier Corporation

• Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Men, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

• The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Artist, Men, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.260, Courier Corporation

• It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Fate, Gambling

• A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Giving, Watches

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.450, Oxford University Press

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