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Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
Arthur Schopenhauer"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 the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
Arthur Schopenhauer"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
Arthur Schopenhauer"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
Arthur Schopenhauer"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
Arthur Schopenhauer"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
Arthur Schopenhauer"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
Arthur Schopenhauer"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
Arthur Schopenhauer"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
Arthur Schopenhauer"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
Arthur Schopenhauer"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
Arthur Schopenhauer