Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes about Inspirational

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Witty, Truth

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Self, Ephemeral

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Science, Men

Studies in Pessimism "Psychological Observations" (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunders)

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Pain, Philosophical

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Character, Men

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational, Spring, Vehemence

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.464, Oxford University Press