Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Pride Quotes

Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Pride Quotes

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , World Quotes , Affection Quotes

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Funny Quotes , Fate Quotes

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Years Quotes

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Wise Quotes , Stupid Quotes

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Music Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , True Life Quotes , Way Quotes

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Essence Quotes , Boredom Quotes

I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Moving Quotes , Thinking Quotes

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Grateful Quotes

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Sad Quotes

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Rights Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Riches Quotes

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Art Quotes , Fear Quotes

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Given Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Hands Quotes , People Quotes

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Way Quotes

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , True Life Quotes , Life Is Quotes