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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Clever, Stupid, Quality
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Independence, Foundation, Essentials
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.44, Full Moon Publications

If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Adversity, Successful
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hallmark, Existence, Restlessness

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Strong Women, Philosophical, Enemy
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.65, Penguin UK

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

Arthur Schopenhauer
Animal, Use, World

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Firsts, Truth Is, Outrage

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Knights, Doctors, Soldier

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Free Will, Determine

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Mind, Weakness
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Doe, Ephemeral
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.87, Penguin UK

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Men, Thinking
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Music, Art, Powerful
Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.257, Courier Corporation

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Change, Growth, Eternal Love
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.47, Publishdrive

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Confusion, Desire, Probability
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.32, Publishdrive

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Class, People, Boredom

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reflection, Roots, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

Arthur Schopenhauer
Christian, Horse, Struggle

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Memories, Good Day, Bad Day
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Positive, Happiness, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sacrifice, Men, Desire
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.94, Publishdrive

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Events, Essentials
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Understanding, Promise
"The World as Will and Idea".

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Animal, Agony
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Suicide, Nature, Suicidal
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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