Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes — Page 29

Philosopher

Philosophical

“I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.”

Believe Feelings Elements

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Philosophical

“A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name”

Men Moving Spring

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Philosophical

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Cat

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Regretful

“To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.”

Opportunity Broken Weakness

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Thoughtful

“One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.”

Men Appearance Impression

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Funny

“Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.”

Men Heaven Astrology

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Creative

“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”

Men Character Philosophical

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Philosophical

“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”

Mind Time Squares

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Philosophical

“The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.”

Men Doe Earth

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Philosophical

“A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.”

Men Philosophy Philosopher

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Philosophical

“The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.”

Justice Women Weakness

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Wise

“Man shows his character best in trifles.”

Men Character Trifles

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