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Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

Deutsch Philosopher February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860

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If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Life is a constant process of dying."
Life is a constant process of dying. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed,..."
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in..."
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Each day is a little life."
Each day is a little life. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be..."
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. Arthur Schopenhauer
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. Arthur Schopenhauer
Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be thegreatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere ofknowledge, and thus attests his common origin with the essentiallyperverse and stupid mass of mankind, so also has every man somethingin his nature which is positively evil. Even the best, nay thenoblest, character will sometimes surprise us by isolated traits ofdepravity; as though it were to acknowledge his kinship with the humanrace, in which villainy--nay,... Arthur Schopenhauer
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other..."
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer
Let us see rather that like Janus? or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death? religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy... Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. Arthur Schopenhauer

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