Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one.

Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it.

O espírito íntimo e o sentido da vida verdadeira e pura do claustro e do ascetismo em geral, é sentirmo-nos dignos e capazes de uma existência melhor do que a nossa, e querermos fortificar e manter esta convicção pelo desprezo de todos os vãos gozos deste mundo. Espera-se com segurança e calma o fim desta vida, livre das ilusões enganadoras, para saudar um dia a hora da morte como a da libertação.

Quem escreve para os tolos encontra sempre um grande público.

A man who is privileged in this respect leads two lives, a personal and an intellectual life; and the latter gradually comes to be looked upon as the true one, and the former as merely a means to it.

Todas las ideas hacen un esfuerzo violento para conseguir manifestarse en el mundo de los fenómenos.

Es difícil encontrar la felicidad dentro de uno mismo, pero es imposible encontrarla en otro lugar.

Pseudo-philosophers, on the contrary, use speech, not indeed to conceal their thoughts, as M. de Talleyrand has it, but rather to conceal the absence of them

Viceversa ogni causalità, perciò ogni materia, e quindi l'intera realtà esiste soltanto per l'intelletto, mediante l'intelletto, nell'intelletto. La prima, più semplice, sempre presente manifestazione dell'intelletto è l'intuizione del mondo reale: questa non è altro se non conoscenza della causa dall'effetto: perciò ogni intuizione è intellettuale

Sólo la especie tiene una vida sin fin, y ella sola es capaz de satisfacciones y de dolores infinitos.

But Xauleira ra KaAa,-what is worth doing is hard to do.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Voltaire says, we shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival.

M?i chân lý ??u Ä'i qua 3 bÆ°á»›c: ??u tiên, nó b? nh?o báng, Sau Ä'ó, nó b? ph?n ??i k?ch li?t, Cu?i cùng, ng??i ta ch?p nh?n nó nhÆ° má»™t sá»± th?t hi?n nhiên.

A man strives to get direct mastery over things either by understanding them or by compulsion. But a woman is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a man; all her direct mastery being limited to him alone.

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim.

Inspira tal horror el egoísmo que inventamos la cortesía para ocultarlo como una parte vergonzosa de nosotros mismos.

The Buddha, Eckhart and I all teach essentially the same, Eckhart within the bounds of his Christian mythology. In Buddhism, these ideas are not encumbered by any such mythology, and are thus simple and clear, to the extent that a religion can be clear. Complete clarity lies with me.

Just as the faults of princes must be expiated by whole nations, the errors of great minds extend their influence over whole generations and even over centuries. They grow and propagate themselves, and finally degenerate into monstrosities. All this arises from the fact that as Berkeley says: "few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.

Will is the lord of all worlds: everything belongs to it, and therefore no one single thing can ever give it satisfaction, but only the whole, which is endless.

Wer klug ist, wird im Gespräch weniger an das denken, worüber er spricht, als an den, mit dem er spricht.