Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Curiosity, Alchemist

• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Training

• Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Socialism, Socializing

• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Patriotism

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Obeys, Pendulum

• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Obstinacy, Stubbornness

• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Intellectuals

• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Nations

• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Ability

• Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Journalism, Journalists

• It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Fate

• It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Detail

• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Absurdity

• 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

  Tags in Selfishness

• 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

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Brief

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Parting

• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Compassion, Morality, Morals

• 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

  Tags in Boredom, Fascination

• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Library

• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Third

Arthur Schopenhauer (111)

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

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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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