Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

Ahora una palabra para los profesores de filosofía. Siempre he admirado la sagacidad, el refinado y certero tino con que reconocieron a mi filosofía, desde el preciso instante de su aparición, como algo enteramente heterogéneo e incluso peligroso para su propio afán o, para decirlo popularmente, como algo que no encaja entre sus baratijas.

A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse. However the cold drove them together again, when just the same thing happened. . . . In the same way the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature

Pokój jest wiÄ™cej wart ni? prawda.

Great intellectual gifts mean an activity pre-eminently nervous in its character, and consequently a very high degree of susceptibility to pain in every form.

Reason recognized from this the fact that, both to lessen the suffering spread among everyone and to distribute it as uniformly as possible, the best and only means is to spare everyone the pain of suffering wrong by having everyone renounce the enjoyment attainable by wrongdoing.

Dowodz?c komukolwiek zupe?nie spokojnie, ?e nie ma racji, a wi?c b??dnie my?li i s?dzi — a bywa to przy ka?dym dialektycznym zwyci?stwie — z?o?cisz go wi?cej ni? gburowato?ci? i obelgami

oddalenie w czasie pozbawia powszechno?? (poglÄ…du) wÅ'aÅ›ciwiej siÅ'y przekonywujÄ…cej, inaczej bowiem musieliby powróci? do wszystkich bÅ'Ä™dów, które niegdyÅ› uznawano za prawdÄ™, np. do systemu Ptolemeusza, lub do przywrócenia katolicyzmu w krajach protestanckich;

perché come il mondo è da un lato, in tutto e per tutto, rappresentazione, così dall'altro, in tutto e per tutto, volontà.

Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence, he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself — so long as other people leave him alone.

Exigir que um indivíduo conserve na sua mente tudo o que já leu é como querer que ele ainda traga dentro de si tudo o que já comeu na vida.

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

Dünyada kitaplardan daha tuhaf sat?? metalar?na rastlamak galiba imkâns?zd?r: Anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan bas?l?r, anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan sat?l?r, anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan okunulur, hatta tetkik ve tenkit edilir; ve ÅŸimdilerde art?k onlar? anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan kaleme al?nmaktad?r.

Gdyby?my przyj?li wolno?? woli, to ka?da ludzka czynno?? by?aby cudem nienadaj?cym si? wyt?umaczy?: skutkiem bez przyczyny.

Autorytety, których przeciwnik wcale nie rozumie, po wiÄ™kszej cz??ci oddziaÅ'ywajÄ… najsilniej.

Do mesmo modo como nosso corpo é coberto por roupas, nosso espírito é coberto por mentiras. Nosso discurso, nossa acção, todo o nosso ser é mentiroso: e somente olhando através desse invólucro é possível, vez por outra, descobrir os nossos sentimentos, assim como através das roupas se descobre a forma do corpo.

When I was seventeen, without any proper schooling, I was affected by the misery and wretchedness of life, as was the Buddha when in his youth he caught sight of sickness, old age, pain and death ... the result for me was that this world could not be the work of an all-bountiful, infinitely good being, but rather of a demon who had summoned into existence creatures in order to gloat over the sight of their anguish and agony.

CzÅ'owiek, tak jak wszystkie przedmioty doÅ›wiadczenia, jest zjawiskiem w czasie i przestrzeni, a poniewa? prawo przyczynowoÅ›ci jest wa?ne a priori, a zatem bez wyjÄ…tku dla wszystkich tych podmiotów, wiÄ™c i on musi siÄ™ mu podda?.

Die Einsamkeit ist das Erbe aller außergewöhnlichen Seelen.

Logika doprowadzi? mo?e jedynie do formalnej prawdy, nie za? materialnej.

do nauki tej nale?? ogólne prawa myÅ›lenia, którym rozum podlega w chwili, gdy jest pozostawiony samemu sobie, gdy nic mu nie przeszkadza, a wiÄ™c podczas samotnego myÅ›lenia rozumnej istoty, której nic w bÅ'Ä…d nie wprowadza

The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.

Morta la vecchia, debito saldato.

To bowiem, co jest prawdziwem w teoryi, musi siÄ™ w praktyce sprawdza?; w przeciwnym razie jest jakiÅ› bÅ'Ä…d w samej teoryi, którego nie dopatrzono na razie

Nale?y pyta? wiele i d?ugo (...), aby ukry? to, na co ??dasz potwierdzenia.