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The Universe is a dream dreame...

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Gaiety alone, as it were, is t...

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

For where did Dante take the m...

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Were an Asiatic to ask me for ...

Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Apart from man, no being wonde...

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

The beard, being a half-mask, ...

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Every truth passes through 3 s...

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Our first ideas of life are ge...

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Consciousness is the mere surf...

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 702 quotes

Personal courage is really a v...

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

The man who sees two or three ...

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 702 quotes

One man is more concerned with...

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 702 quotes

Restlessness is the hallmark o...

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Rudeness is better than any ar...

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

The poet presents the imaginat...

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

Two Chinamen visiting Europe w...

Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

A man of intellect is like an ...

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

In youth it is the outward asp...

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

Arthur Schopenhauer 702 quotes

The faculty for remembering is...

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 702 quotes

Physics is unable to stand on ...

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 702 quotes

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