Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Men Quotes, Greatness Quotes

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Greatness Quotes

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Hallmark Quotes , Existence Quotes

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Self Quotes , Deceit Quotes

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Eye Quotes , Thinking Quotes

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Opinion Quotes

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Music Quotes , Art Quotes

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Errors Quotes

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Short Life Quotes , Men Quotes

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , People Quotes , Use Quotes

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Way Quotes

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Independence Quotes , World Quotes

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Past Quotes , Reality Quotes

Motives are causes experienced from within.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Causes 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

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Taken Quotes , Heart Quotes

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Music Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes