Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes — Page 27

Philosopher

Philosophical

“No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.”

Lying Air Mirrors

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Philosophical

“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”

Would Be Essence Boredom

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Philosophical

“Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.”

Nations Criticize

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Philosophical

“The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.”

Long Waiting

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Wise

“Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”

Pride Appreciation Vanity

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Angry

“If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.”

Men Hate Energy

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Philosophical

“He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.”

Men Two Three

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Philosophical

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”

Writing Sake Subjects

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Philosophical

“Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.”

Art Ideas Musician

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Philosophical

“A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.”

Men Needs Normal

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Philosophical

“To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.”

World Language Atheism

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Philosophical

“Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.”

Needs Satisfaction Abstract

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