Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, World, Language

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

• Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  True Life, Way, Language

• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Communication, Philosophical, Men

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 25, sect. 298, 1851.

• 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

• A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Language, Difficulty, Translations

• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Science

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Volume 2 "On Various Subjects"), 1851, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale in "Essays and Aphorisms", 1970.

• Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Math, Maturity

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