Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doubt, Fool, Modesty

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

• Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Ideas, Musician

• Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Courage, Animal, People

• In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hate, Virtue, Cases

• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.341, Oxford University Press

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