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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Photography, People, Looks

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Change, Happiness, Growth
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Crush, Strong, Hero
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.63, 谷月社

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Winning, May
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.95, Publishdrive

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Body, Expecting

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Two, Three
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Success, Time, Men

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Self, World, Firsts

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Evil, Joy
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Freedom, Men

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering, Needs
"Welt und Mensch". II, p. 230ff,

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Fall, Opportunity, Politics
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.243, Oxford University Press

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Teaching, Philosophical, Learning

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Tree, World, Demand
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.99, Penguin UK

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Reality, Depth
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.41, Publishdrive

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Way, Reverse
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.10, 谷月社

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Fear, Educational, Air
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Way, Rebellious

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, Eye, Fate
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.5, Arthur Schopenhauer

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Arthur Schopenhauer
War, Passion, Desire
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Book, Men, Thinking
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Love, Religious, Hatred

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

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Science, Data

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Mean, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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