Quotes about Schopenhauer

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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 — Arthur Schopenhauer
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to — Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his — nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it — Arthur Schopenhauer
Your educators can only be your liberators. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was n — Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure
Honor has not to be won — it must only not be lost.
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom l — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to t — 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
Truth is most beautiful undraped. — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time — a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong — when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in t — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friend — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, — Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds. — Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
That streetside tree is obscuring the air. Cut it down. Haul it in for questioning. There are secrets within that foliag — Benson Bruno, A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..