Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Disappointment Quotes, Errors Quotes

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

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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. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

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If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

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Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

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

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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

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