Arthur Schopenhauer quotes - page 8

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. View quote
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. View quote
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. View quote
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. View quote
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced. View quote
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. View quote
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Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. View quote
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Each day is a little life. View quote
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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. View quote
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. View quote
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If life - the craving for which is the very essence of our being - were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. View quote
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. View quote
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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish. View quote
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die. View quote
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it. View quote
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. View quote
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The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate. View quote
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. View quote
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For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. View quote
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. View quote
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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. View quote
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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself? View quote
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