Arthur Schopenhauer

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Biography : German philosopher.
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Arthur Schopenhauer - Quotes

Change alone is the constant.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life /

change

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena /

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.
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The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.

© Hans Jürgen Heringer

For our improvement we need a mirror.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena /

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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Ethics is in truth the easiest of all sciences.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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death

In fact, every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius to a certain extent a child.
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What goes against the heart, the head does not let in.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

heart

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
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to think

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Art is a way of viewing things independently from the principle of sufficient reason.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

The present alone is true and real: it is time as it is really fulfilled and our existence lies exclusively in it.
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Art repeats the eternal Ideas apprehended through pure contemplation, the essential and abiding element in all the phenomena of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

All original thinking takes place in images, and this is why imagination is so necessary an instrument of thought, and minds that lack imagination will never accomplish much.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

What history relates is only the long, heavy, confused dream of humanity.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

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.
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life

Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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music

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena /

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

death

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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.
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time

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

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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