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Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

Deutsch Philosopher February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860

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Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint..."
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as..."
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its..."
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. Arthur Schopenhauer
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 truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. Arthur Schopenhauer
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark..."
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. Arthur Schopenhauer
A spring never free from the pressure of some foreign body at last loses its elasticity; and so does the mind if other people’s thoughts are constantly forced upon it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Music is the melody whose text is the world."
Music is the melody whose text is the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Men need some kind of external activity, because they are..."
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards,..."
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and..."
...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish; Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But..."
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer

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