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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Character, Men

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Courage, Animal, People

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, Men, People
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Looks, May, Way
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Individual, Life Or Death

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

Arthur Schopenhauer
Errors, Years, Confusion
"The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Men, Lasts
"The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims".

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Arthur Schopenhauer
Unions, Facts, Quitting
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.83, Hackett Publishing

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mother, Father, Party
"Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Example, Purpose
"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 347, 1974.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Doubt, Fool, Modesty
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Moments, Given, Absolutely Nothing
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Essay on the Freedom of the Will”, p.24, Courier Corporation

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Fate, Gambling

Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Race, Europe, Roots
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.357, Courier Corporation

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Perfection, Pessimism, Defects
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “On Human Nature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Taken, Ideas, Firsts

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

Arthur Schopenhauer
Book, Unique, Hands

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mother, Art, Father

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, Humility, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Our World, Way
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.269, Kshetra Books

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mother, Children, Thinking
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.77, Publishdrive

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Self, Three, Firsts

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading, Mind, Facts
Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Morning, Looks
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

Authority and example lead the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Example, World, Authority

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