Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes - Page 8

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• Time is that in which all things pass away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Passing Away, Time Management

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.28, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Law, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Thinking, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knowledge, Library, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Science, Power, Errors

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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• I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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  Long, Noise, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.65, Publishdrive

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• To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

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  Hurt, Acceptance, Rejection

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.62, Publishdrive

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• To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Desire, Immortality

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• Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Spring, Vehemence

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

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• Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

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  Animal, Men, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.98, Publishdrive

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• Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Needs, Kind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.92, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Music, Philosophy, Useless

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• If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Gossip, Silence, Secret

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.43, Publishdrive

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• I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

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  Dog, Stupidity, Mankind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.72, 谷月社

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• To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

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  Real, Expression, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Writing, Expression

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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• There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

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  Wise, Atheist, Powerful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

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  Strong, Twilight, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

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  Letting Go, Past, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.53, Publishdrive

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• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

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  Book, Life Is Short, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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  Fate, Two, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.29, Full Moon Publications

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boys, World, Foolish

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• What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

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  Loneliness, Eye, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.59, Publishdrive

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• Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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