Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

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Countless numbers of people find themselves in want, simply because, when they had money, they spent it only to get momentary relief from the feeling of boredom which oppressed them.

Voltaire'in, Mutluluk yaln?zca bir düÅŸtür, ac? ise gerçektir sözü gerçekten de olduÄŸu gibi doÄŸru deÄŸil, bir o kadar yanl?? olmal?yd?. Buna göre yaÅŸam?ndan mutluluk öÄŸretisi aç?s?ndan bir sonuç ç?karmak isteyen kimse, hesab?n?, tatt??? zevklere göre deÄŸil atlatt??? belalara göre yapmal?d?r.

It would be of general service to German authors if they discerned that while a man should, if possible, think like a great mind, he should speak the same language as every other person. Men should use common words to say uncommon things.

Adev?rul nu este o prostituat? care se arunc? de gâtul celor care n-o doresc; el este, dimpotriv?, o femeie frumoas? ÅŸi atât de distant?, încât nici cel care-i jertfeÅŸte totul nu poate fi sigur de favorurile ei.

Seria bom comprar livros se, junto com eles, fosse possível comprar também o tempo para lê-los, mas na maioria das vezes troca-se a compra dos livros pela aquisição do seu conteúdo.

Ac?s?z bir duruma bir de can s?k?nt?s?n?n yokluÄŸu eklenirse, iÅŸte o zaman dünyevi mutluluÄŸa büyük ölçüde eriÅŸilmiÅŸtir: Çünkü geri kalan bir hayaldir.

To secure and promote this feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavors after happiness.

Yohannes D. Asega > My Quotes (showing 1-1 of 1) sort by ? top up up position down down ? bottom Remove this quote from your collectionArthur Schopenhauer "We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

Could the completed life course of such a man turn out in any respect, even the smallest, in any happening, any scene, differently from the way it did? – No! is the consistent and correct answer.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.

Ignorance is degrading only when it is found in company with riches.

To imitate another man's style is like wearing a mask, which, be it never so fine, is not long in arousing disgust and abhorrence, because it is lifeless; so that even the ugliest living face is better.

Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!

Literary newspapers, since they print the daily smatterings of commonplace people, are especially a cunning means for robbing from the aesthetic public the time which should be devoted to the genuine productions of art for the furtherance of culture.

Olhai ao vosso redor! O sintoma externo da brutalidade cada vez mais crescente pode até mesmo ser reconhecido como o elemento que constantemente a acompanha — a barba longa, esse distintivo sexual em meio ao rosto, dizendo-nos que à humanidade prefere-se a masculinidade. Esta nos coloca em pé de igualdade com os animais, uma vez que leva o indivíduo a querer ser antes de tudo um macho, mas, e somente depois um homem.

Every ought simply has no sense and meaning except in relation to threatened punishment or promised reward … . Thus every ought is necessarily conditioned through punishment or reward, hence, to put it in Kant's terms, essentially and inevitably hypothetical [with if-clause] and never, as he maintains categorical [without if-clause] … Therefore an absolute ought is simply a contradictio in adjecto.

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Existe apenas um único erro inato, que é o de acreditarmos que vivemos para sermos felizes.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more.

the same disposition that impelled the Greeks and Romans to embellish their precious sarcophagi precisely as we still see them, with festivals, dancing, weddings,4 hunts, animal combat, bacchanals, thus with depictions of the most powerful press of life,i which they bring before us not only in such entertainments, but in group debauchery extending even to the point of copulation between satyrs and goats.

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere.

Rien n'est beau gue le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable'' ''DoÄŸrudan baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey güzel deÄŸildir; sadece doÄŸru sevilmeye deÄŸerdir.