Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Lessons, Youth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.68, Courier Corporation

• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Eye, Long Ago

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

• It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Good Day, Bad Day

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

• Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Memories, Glasses

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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