Selected quotes · 33
№ 01
“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHumility
№ 02
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur SchopenhauerJustice
№ 03
“For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
№ 04
“If ever we have had an opportunity of seeing how the greatest of men will meet with nothing but slight from half-a-dozen blockheads, we shall understand that to lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFreedom
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“Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”
Arthur SchopenhauerWisdom
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“For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
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“The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
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“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
Arthur SchopenhauerWisdom
№ 09
“A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFaith
№ 10
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Arthur SchopenhauerCreativity
№ 12
“The same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own.”
Arthur SchopenhauerLife
№ 13
“The same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own.”
Arthur SchopenhauerLife
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“Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.”
Arthur SchopenhauerPhilosophy
№ 15
“The man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest.”
Arthur SchopenhauerNature
№ 16
“The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it.”
Arthur SchopenhauerLife
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“The more contemptible and ridiculous a man is — the readier he is with his tongue.”
Arthur SchopenhauerWisdom
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“Ultimately, a man can really understand and appreciate those things only which are of like nature with himself.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFriendship
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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
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“The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur SchopenhauerWisdom
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“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”
Arthur SchopenhauerWisdom
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Arthur SchopenhauerLeadership
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“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFreedom
№ 25
“Life is a constant battle between the will to live and the will to die.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFreedom
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“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
№ 27
“Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king”
Arthur SchopenhauerFriendship
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“An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theaters, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness
№ 29
“Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it.”
Arthur SchopenhauerCreativity
№ 30
“The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people — the less, indeed, other people can be to him.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFreedom
№ 31
“In the end one who is inwardly poor comes to be also poor outwardly.”
Arthur SchopenhauerWisdom
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“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Arthur SchopenhauerFaith
№ 33
“The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness