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Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Chemistry, Faithfulness, Persons

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Path, Action
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.65, 谷月社

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Friends, Humility, Men
"Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Light, Precious Stones, Genius

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reality, Boredom, Needs
"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, World, Genius

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, Lying, Theatre
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.14, Penguin UK

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Time, Mistake, Book
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.51, Publishdrive

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Photography, Character, Men
"Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, transl. by T. Bailey Saunders , Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 1851.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Moon, Frozen, Ladders
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Two, Sake
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

Arthur Schopenhauer
World, Limits, Pessimism
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.273, Courier Corporation

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Two, Different
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.40, Kshetra Books

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Religious, War, Jealous
"Religion: A Dialogue" by Arthur Schopenhauer,

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Arthur Schopenhauer
Moving, Suffering, Action

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Learning, Numbers, Littles
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.45, 谷月社

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Dark, Shining, Worms
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.46, Arthur Schopenhauer

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Style, Firsts

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Achievement, Mind
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.69, Cosimo Classics

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Honesty, Writing, Littles
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.22, 谷月社

Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Ignorance, Science
"Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Volume 2 "On Various Subjects"), 1851, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale in "Essays and Aphorisms", 1970.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom, Fascination, Sides

A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Mean, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Thinking, Light
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sea, Water, Wealth

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