Arthur Schopenhauer quotes - page 2

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. View quote
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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. View quote
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. View quote
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. View quote
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. View quote
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. View quote
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. View quote
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. View quote
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The word of man is the most durable of all material. View quote
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! View quote
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. View quote
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. View quote
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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. View quote
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Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. View quote
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. View quote
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. View quote
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. View quote
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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. View quote
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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. View quote
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. View quote
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. View quote
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