Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Lying, Theatre

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.14, Penguin UK

• There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Lying, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

• Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Truth, Lying

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

• If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.464, Oxford University Press

• We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Men, Play

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.532, Courier Corporation

• No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Mirrors, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

• A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Book, Matter

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

• The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Clouds, Feet

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