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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

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
Sad, Death, Suicide
Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Europe, Answers

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Depression, Pain, World Suffering

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Expression, Intellectual
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Forget Everything, Forget, Oneself
"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Men, Waiting

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Loneliness, Eye, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.59, Publishdrive

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Sake, Subjects
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Animal, Firsts, First Time
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.99, Publishdrive

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Arthur Schopenhauer
True Life, Way, Language

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad, World, Dominion
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Certain, Mankind, Absurdity
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Expression, Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.159, Oxford University Press

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Business, Men, Deceiving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Vanity, People, Matter
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.62, Full Moon Publications

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
Selfish People, Psychology, Selfishness
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.48, Publishdrive

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Thinking, Expression
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Agreement, People, Intellectual
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.64, 谷月社

Each day is a little life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Each Day, Littles
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Death, Retirement, Philosophical
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.39, Publishdrive

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion, Mass, Metaphysics
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Passion, World, Stuff
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

Arthur Schopenhauer
God, Religious, Hands
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep, Men, Clock
"Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer".

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion, Opposites, Feelings
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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