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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, World, Want

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Dirty, Patriotic, Naughty
"Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Resurrection, Reunion, Parting
1851 Parerga und Paralipomena, ch.26 (translated by R J Hollingdale).

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Father, Philosophy, Teaching
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.3, Oxford University Press

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Running, Animal, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (1951). “Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena”

Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Causes, Spinoza, Pantheism

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Lying, Men, Play
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.532, Courier Corporation

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Evil, Boredom

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Hands, Newspapers
Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernest Belfort Bax (1891). “Selected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: With Biographical Introduction and Sketch of His Philosophy”

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

Arthur Schopenhauer
Long, Mind, Generations
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Animal, Rights, Europe

To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, World, Reason
"The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. I, §68, 1819.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Oedipus, Faces, Philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer's letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

The world is my representation

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

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Arthur Schopenhauer
Book, Thinking, Buying

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Light, Childhood
"Parerga und Paralipomena II". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Chapter XXIV, 1851.

The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell
"Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Heart, Fate
Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mirrors, Toilets, Theater
Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Selected and Translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Green

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Arthur Schopenhauer
People, Metaphysics
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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