Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher

Lived from: 1788 - 1860

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGermany

Born: 22 february 1788 Died: 21 september 1860

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  • Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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  • Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
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  • Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
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  • Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
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  • For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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  • Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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  • Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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  • 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.
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  • Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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  • Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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  • Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
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  • I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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  • If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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  • If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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  • In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
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  • In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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  • In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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  • It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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  • It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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  • It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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