121 Quotations by Arthur Schopenhauer
- 61. Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is a ...
- 62. Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that othe ...
- 63. Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
- 64. Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-h ...
- 65. Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
- 66. Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul ...
- 67. People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
- 68. Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- 69. Pride... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
- 70. Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! And the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi ...
- 71. Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
- 72. Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall ...
- 73. Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- 74. Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
- 75. Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary w ...
- 76. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- 77. That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole ...
- 78. The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- 79. The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells ...
- 80. The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the r ...
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