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Arthur Schopenhauer
German
Philosopher
Born:
Feb 22
,
1788
Died:
Sep 21
,
1860
Every
Life
Man
Time
Will
You
Related authors:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Immanuel Kant
Karl Marx
Martin Heidegger
Meister Eckhart
Oswald Spengler
Theodor W. Adorno
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
Three
First
Through
Self-Evident
Accepted
Passes
Opposed
Being
Stages
Ridiculed
Second
Violently
Third
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
Happiness
Money
He
Abstract
Longer
Himself
Concrete
Human
Capable
Human Happiness
Then
Who
Utterly
Enjoying
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius
Else
See
No-One
Talent
Target
Hit
Hits
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
You
Age
Remember
Speed
Once
Pick
Over
Hill
Up
Begin
Just
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love
Alone
Freedom
Man
Solitude
Will
Free
Long
Only
He
Himself
Does
Really
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Doctor
Stupidity
Lawyer
Weakness
Sees
Mankind
Theologian
Medical
Wickedness
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
Truth Is
Weakness
More
Directly
Mislead
Powers
Opinion
False
Discovery
Error
Effectively
Preconceived
Which
Prejudice
Reasoning
Appearance
Things
Present
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
Death
Day
Morning
Youth
Rest
Every
Birth
Rising
Fresh
Waking
Going
Little
Each
Each Day
Sleep
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Great
Solitude
Men
Build
Lofty
Some
Great Men
Nest
Like
Eagles
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
Death
Man
World
Cowardice
Own
Nothing
Every
Suicide
Tell
More
Wrong
Piece
Obvious
Greatest
His
Than
Person
Quite
Which
Title
Us
Every Man
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art
Religion
Animal
People
Training
Think
Shall
Masterpiece
How
Trains
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time
Law
Rest
Past
Other
Side
Distance
Pendulum
Must
Finds
Only
Remain
Point
True
Like
Opinion
Go
Same
Goes
After
Which
Centre
Certain
Gravity
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man
World
Vision
Own
Field
Every
Takes
Limits
His
Every Man
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
First
Thirty
Give
Supply
Years
Text
Commentary
Us
Next
Forty
Forty Years
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Death
Every
Gives
Resurrection
Parting
Reunion
Hint
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
People
Brainy
Other
Ourselves
Three-Quarters
Like
Forfeit
Order
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
People
Spring
Other
Sympathy
Relations
Our
Out
Almost
Almost All
Sorrows
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature
Suffering
Intelligence
Degree
Pain
Increased
Only
Point
Highest
Highest Degree
Supreme
Capacity
Shows
Growth
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wise
Fools
Majority
Said
Always
Opposite
Same
Done
Just
Same Things
Who
Things
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
World
Vision
Own
Field
Every
Takes
Limits
Person
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature
Suffering
Will
Arbitrary
Seems
Never
Another
Inflicted
Us
Painful
Chance
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading
Own
Thinking
Else
Someone
Head
Instead
Equivalent
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
Truth
Thoughts
Man
Own
Clothes
Meal
Others
Else
Someone
Only
Remains
He
Taking
Putting
Like
Discarded
Read
Understands
Them
Really
Stranger
Fundamental
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth
Become
More
Drink
True
Like
Fame
Same
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Death
You
Will
Before
Birth
Were
After
Your
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man
Seems
More
Mysterious
Him
Existence
Unintelligent
Less
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