Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in li — Arthur Schopenhauer
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude — Arthur Schopenhauer
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 — Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure — Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind — Arthur Schopenhauer
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, — Arthur Schopenhauer
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it — Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of all morality — Arthur Schopenhauer
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this give — Arthur Schopenhauer
Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rim — Arthur Schopenhauer
The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to t — Arthur Schopenhauer
I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the ob — Arthur Schopenhauer
What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but ev — Arthur Schopenhauer
In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowled — Arthur Schopenhauer
We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but i — Arthur Schopenhauer
Vladimir Kush , Shell Bronze , Lovers Entwined (painting)“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on — Arthur Schopenhauer