Arthur Schopenhauer quotes - page 9

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. View quote
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. View quote
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. View quote
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. View quote
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. View quote
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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause. View quote
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Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. View quote
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. View quote
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. View quote
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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear. View quote
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted. View quote
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. View quote
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Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. View quote
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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 care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. View quote
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. View quote
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me. View quote
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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart. View quote
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. View quote
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Truth is most beautiful undraped. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. View quote
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. View quote
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. View quote
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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself. View quote
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