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A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer’s booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself... Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
If we weren’t all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn’t endure it (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Not to go to the theatre is like making one’s toilet without a mirror (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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 (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The first rule, indeed by itself virtually a sufficient condition for good style, is to have something to say (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The little honesty existing among authors is to be seen in the outrageous way in which they misquote from the writings of others (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation can make up for the want of natural abilities (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural ability (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)