Arthur SchopenhauerWere an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was creat… ▶371LifeTime
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ✨ Studies in Pessimism Psychological Observations (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunder… ▶371Death
Arthur SchopenhauerA 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… ▶372HopeReadingThought
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.361Truth
Arthur SchopenhauerAll the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified. ✨ Art… ▶373HopeTruth
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as hi… ▶373Love
Arthur SchopenhauerWealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). 101 Facts of life, p.57, Publishdrive373HopeLifeTruth
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). Counsels and Maxims, p.31, Arthur Schopenhauer362Hope
Arthur SchopenhauerThe art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When … ▶352HopeLifePolitics
Arthur SchopenhauerA man can be himself only so long as he is alone. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer, p.19, 谷月社341Hope
Arthur SchopenhauerThe doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). Parerga and Paralipomena: A Colle… ▶352HopeHumanityPolitics
Arthur SchopenhauerThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). Counsels and Maxims, p.12, Arthur Schopenhauer363Hope
Arthur SchopenhauerLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). The World as Will and I… ▶352HopeLifeThought
Arthur SchopenhauerTo 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 ha… ▶363HopeTruth
Arthur SchopenhauerThe general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2016… ▶374HopeHumanityLife
Arthur SchopenhauerI 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 fa… ▶374HopeLifeTruth
Arthur SchopenhauerThe first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.364Life
Arthur SchopenhauerMen best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feel… ▶353Sadness
Arthur SchopenhauerStudents and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every st… ▶342HopeReading
Arthur SchopenhauerFirst the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.364Truth
Arthur Schopenhaueralent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see. ✨ The World as… ▶342Time
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set you… ▶354Hope
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it. ✨ Arthur Scho… ▶321Hope
Arthur SchopenhauerVulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). The Art of Controversy, p.57, Simon and Schuster343HopeHumanity
Arthur SchopenhauerThe two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.365HumanitySadness
Arthur SchopenhauerI believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.354Death
Arthur SchopenhauerIf a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, thi… ▶343Politics
Arthur SchopenhauerIf the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they m… ▶343DeathHopeSadness
Arthur SchopenhauerIf 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 w… ▶354DeathHopeLife
Arthur SchopenhauerThe highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer, p.4, 谷月社366HopeLifePhilosophy
