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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world, and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason, this and nothing else is philosophy (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man’s energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror’s booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it todo (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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 (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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 (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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 (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)