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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Whole, Dies

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Doe, Earth

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Appreciation, Pride, Vanity
"Parerga and Paralipomena". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer. Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2, 1851.

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent 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
Hands, People, Achievement

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

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

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hate, Virtue, Cases

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

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

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad, Men, Animal
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Memories, Lessons, Youth
Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.68, Courier Corporation

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Women, Justice, Weakness

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Eye, Science

Motives are causes experienced from within.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Causes, Motive
Bryan Magee, Arthur Schopenhauer (1983). “The Philosophy of Schopenhauer”, Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Powerful, Voice, Miracle

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Two, Long, Innovation
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.17, Courier Corporation

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Waiting, Comfort

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hands, Boredom, Misery
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Frustration, Men, Order

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Given, Conclusion
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.106, Oxford University Press

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Purpose, Too Much, Defeat
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, Math, Maturity

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 harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Thinking, Light
Arthur Schopenhauer (1910). “The Art of Literature: a Series of Essays in Arthur Schopenhauer...”

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Character, Men, Firsts
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.45, 谷月社

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Teaching, Character
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.98, Kshetra Books

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. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Cheating, Writing, Two
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Birthday, Years, Giving

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