[ÉA] Schopenhauer Quotes

Day 1,929, 20:27 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Ian E CoIeman
Est. 2010
March 2, 2013

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I'm publishing this article under the banner of EA, but it isn't any kind of official update, just some quotes from my favourite philosopher that I hope will make you think. This article isn't designed to help you decide who to vote for in the elections by the way, so no need to look for a hidden message. I think we're lucky to have so many good choices this month.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Arthur Schopenhauer is a German philosopher who was born on February 22, 1788 and died in the year 1860.

Those interested can read more about him here.


A Few Quotes

-Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

-Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

-The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

-A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

-Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

-Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

-With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

-The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

-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.

-Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

-The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

-National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

-Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

-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.

-For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

-In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

-The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

-Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stan😛 you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

-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.

-There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

-If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

-Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

-The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

-It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

-The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

-The word of man is the most durable of all material.

-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.




Cheers,
Ian E Coleman