Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Individuality

Quotes about: Individuality

• No one can transcend their own individuality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Individuality

• 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

• I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moving, Thinking, Law

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1896). “The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers”

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