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Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

Deutsch Philosopher February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860

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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. Arthur Schopenhauer
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... Arthur Schopenhauer
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true..."
Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to..."
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. Arthur Schopenhauer
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print. Arthur Schopenhauer
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what..."
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is..."
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. Arthur Schopenhauer
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey. Arthur Schopenhauer
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him? Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. Arthur Schopenhauer

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