Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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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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• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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• The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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• The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

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• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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• It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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• 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.

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• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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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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• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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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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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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Arthur Schopenhauer (111)

Birth:	22nd February, 1788
Death:	21st September, 1860
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation, in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. In 1820, Schopenhauer became a lecturer at the University of Berlin.

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