60 result(s) for Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes.
"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own."
"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."
"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
"Life is short and truth works far and lives long; let us speak the truth."
"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"The wise do at once what the fool does finally."
"Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things."
"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man."
"Happiness is an illusion, the more we try to grasp it, the more it escapes us."
"Change is essential to life."
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite."
"No one can escape life's tragic moments. It is impossible."
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."
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"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
"Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first."
"Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target beyond reach of others."
"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary."
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
"Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in."
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
"Life is a constant process of dying and being reborn."
"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves."
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"There is no great and no small; To the Soul that maketh all."
"It is difficult not to write satire."
"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
"The biggest of all puzzles in life is trying to understand one's own self."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
"Life is a constant process of dying."
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
"One should use common words to say uncommon things."
"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."
"A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man."
"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control."
"Solitude is the realm of genius."
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become."
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