Home » Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1 Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer Lost, Honor Add to Collection 2 Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. Arthur Schopenhauer Place, Result Add to Collection 3 Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. Arthur Schopenhauer History, Hands, Hand Add to Collection 4 There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer Age, Great Add to Collection 5 We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. Arthur Schopenhauer Success, Friends, Regret Add to Collection 6 Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Nation, Right, Other Add to Collection 7 For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer Time, Speak, Fault Add to Collection 8 The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. Arthur Schopenhauer Gold, Value, Search Add to Collection 9 It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. Arthur Schopenhauer Best, Character, Man Add to Collection 10 In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Arthur Schopenhauer Wisdom, Work, Great Add to Collection 11 To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. Arthur Schopenhauer Judge, Real, Find Add to Collection 12 Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. Arthur Schopenhauer Anger, Heart, Hatred Add to Collection 13 Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. Arthur Schopenhauer Learning, Patriotism, Doors Add to Collection 14 The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. Arthur Schopenhauer mind, Greatest, Human Mind Add to Collection 15 National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Character, Name, Country Add to Collection 16 Music is the melody whose text is the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Music, World, Text Add to Collection 17 The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. Arthur Schopenhauer Man, Fame, Last Add to Collection 18 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer Life, Endure Add to Collection 19 It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. Arthur Schopenhauer Face, First, Impression Add to Collection 20 Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthur Schopenhauer Time, Good, A Good Thing Add to Collection 21 The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. Arthur Schopenhauer Brain, Body, Kind Add to Collection 22 The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Arthur Schopenhauer Time, Teach, True Add to Collection 23 Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. Arthur Schopenhauer Life, Positive, Freedom Add to Collection 24 It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. Arthur Schopenhauer Person, Treatment, Shows Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
