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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.

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Regret, Missing, Enemy
"Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Animal, Anxiety, Consciousness
"On the Suffering of the World". As translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Arthur Schopenhauer
Want

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Important, Stand Alone, Ends
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.20, Cosimo Classics

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Second Chance, Hands, History
"Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 19, § 233, 1851.

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Way, Looks

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Artist, Symphony
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Judging, First Impression

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

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Work, Philosophical
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.27, Publishdrive

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Target, Genius, Talent
"The World as Will and Representation".

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Destiny, Genius, Unfaithful
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1966). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.386, Courier Corporation

Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Negative, Satisfaction

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Thinking, Want
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Machines, Facts, Arithmetic
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Wish, Can Do
Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer by Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" in The Saturday Evening Post (p. 114), October 26, 1929.

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Artist, Men, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.260, Courier Corporation

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Believe, Feelings, Elements
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Men, Philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.41, 谷月社

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Jealous, Hands, Religion
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.358, Oxford University Press

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 stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Time, Squares, Mind
Arthur Schopenhauer (2009). “The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion”, p.79, Penguin UK

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Music, Wisdom, Philosophical
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.55, Publishdrive

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Gratitude, Grateful, Matter

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Independence, World, Results
"Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations" edited Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, (p. 227), 1993.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Agreement, Principles, Doe
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.55, Kshetra Books

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Opposites, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.18, 谷月社

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