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Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher)

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer genius
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
— Arthur Schopenhauer loss
Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
— Arthur Schopenhauer play
Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.
— Arthur Schopenhauer knowledge
The cheapest form of pride however is national pride. For it reveals in the one thus afflicted the lack of individual qualities of which he could be proud, while he would not otherwise reach for what he shares with so many millions. He who possesses significant personal merits will rather recognise the defects of his own nation, as he has them constantly before his eyes, most clearly. But that poor blighter who has nothing in the world of which he can be proud, latches onto the last means of being proud, the nation to which he belongs to. Thus he recovers and is now in gratitude ready to defend with hands and feet all errors and follies which are its own.Kap. II
— Arthur Schopenhauer world
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.Original: Der schwere Panzer wird zum Flügelkleide Kurz ist der Schmerz, unendlich ist die Freude.Literally: The heavy armor becomes the winged dress brief is the pain, unending is the joy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer pain
Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, nötig hat, mit den Menschen in Berührung zu kommen, desto besser ist er daran.The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer people
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.Thinking for Oneself
— Arthur Schopenhauer books
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?Of Women
— Arthur Schopenhauer women
Truth that has been merely learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; at best, like a nose made out of anothers flesh; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thinking of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us. This is the fundamental difference between the thinker and the mere man of learning. The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.Vol. 2, Ch. 22, § 261
— Arthur Schopenhauer life
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.Personality; or, What a Man Is
— Arthur Schopenhauer men
Die dem Satz vom Grunde nachgehende ist die vernünftige Betrachtungsart, welche im praktischen Leben, wie in der Wissenschaft, allein gilt und hilft: die vom Inhalt jenes Satzes wegsehende ist die geniale Betrachtungsart, welche in der Kunst allein gilt und hilft.
— Arthur Schopenhauer art
Jeffrey Shallit cites The Harper Book of Quotations as a likely source being a popular book of quotations where the quotations represent a distillation from 50 years of reading books and manuscripts and magazines and book reviews and advertisements and epitaphs and signs in store windows. They come from other quotation books and from obituary pages, and from listening to friends and strangers and associates. quoted in the original Science, Pseudoscience, and The Three Stages of Truth
— Arthur Schopenhauer truth
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.Volume I, Book I
— Arthur Schopenhauer book
Quotes from Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, using various translations, also translated as On The Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms
— Arthur Schopenhauer life
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.Vol. 2, Ch. 22, § 261 Variant translations: Reading is thinking with some one elses head instead of ones own.As translated by T. Bailey Saunders Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
— Arthur Schopenhauer books
Truth that has been merely learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; at best, like a nose made out of anothers flesh; it adheres to us only ‘because it is put on. But truth acquired by thinking of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us. This is the fundamental difference between the thinker and the mere man of learning. The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.
— Arthur Schopenhauer life
Variant translation: To free a man from error does not mean to take something from him, but to give him something.
— Arthur Schopenhauer man

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