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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Success, Time

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Powerful, Space
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Blessing, Boredom, Want
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.11, Penguin UK

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
Distance, Past, Law
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Wonder

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

Arthur Schopenhauer
Stars, Rocks, Hands
"Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 (Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by E. Payne, 1974.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hands, People, Solitude
"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life Arthur Schopenhauer". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Thinking, Goal
Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Arthur Schopenhauer
Book, Important, Should

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Money, Philosophical, Riches
Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Laughter, Philosophy, Real

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Essence, Boredom, Would Be
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Men, Years
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Self, Deceit, Deceiving

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Loss, Teach, Values

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Free Gifts, Age, Reincarnation
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.146, Kshetra Books

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Animal, Eternal

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Years, People, Giving

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Men, Discarded
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Character, Men, Way
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.107, Arthur Schopenhauer

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Character, Men, Personality
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Something Better
Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Beautiful, Style, Mind

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Character, Honor, Foundation
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Book, Life Is Short, Order
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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