Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Dream Quotes, Reality Quotes

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

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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.

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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

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I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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

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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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