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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Human existence is an error... it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) ... In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes) To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again  (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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