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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Character, Tragedy, Details
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.211, Kshetra Books

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mind, Pleasure, Lasting
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Greatness, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Roots, Principles, Causes

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Relationship

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, Reality, Hands
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.63, Full Moon Publications

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Anger, Philosophical, Heart
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.591, Oxford University Press

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Arthur Schopenhauer
War, Men, Pessimism
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Funny, Dog, Moving

Life is a constant process of dying.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Dying, Life Is
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.40, Publishdrive

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Arthur Schopenhauer
World, Affection, Remember

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Love, Freedom, Solitude

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, Vexation, Life Is
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.85, 谷月社

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Arthur Schopenhauer
God, Funny Life, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.25, Publishdrive

Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Believe, Fall, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Wiser

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Wise, Wisdom, Opposites

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading, Trouble, Hours

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Opinion, Global Warming
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Controversy”, p.56, Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Short Life, Men, Order

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Intelligent, World Suffering
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Stupid, Silly, Doctors
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Adversity, Doubt
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Happy, Pain

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Happiness, Mistake
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.35, Arthur Schopenhauer

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