Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher. One of the most famous thinkers of irrationalism, a misanthrope.
He gravitated towards German romanticism, was fond of mysticism, highly appreciated the main works of Immanuel Kant, calling them “the most important phenomenon that philosophy has known for two millennia,” appreciated philosophical ideas Buddhism. The main philosophical work is “The World as Will and Representation” (1818), which Schopenhauer commented on and popularized until his death.
Quotes and aphorisms
From the point of view of youth, life is an endless future; from the point of view of old age, it is a very short past.
A person’s true character is revealed precisely in the little things, when he stops taking care of himself.
Every person can be listened to, but not everyone is worth talking to.
Smart people do not so much seek solitude as they avoid the fuss created by fools.
No, truth is not a corrupt woman throwing herself around the neck of those who do not want her; on the contrary, she is such an inaccessible beauty that even the one who sacrifices everything to her cannot yet be sure of her favor.
Everyone takes the end of their horizons for the end of the world.
To reconcile with a person and resume a broken relationship with him is a weakness that you will have to repent of when, at the first opportunity, he does the same thing that caused the breakup.
Quotes should be used only when you really cannot do without someone else's authority.
Every society first of all requires mutual adaptation and humiliation, and therefore the greater it is, the more vulgar it is. Each person can be completely himself only while he is alone. Therefore, whoever does not like loneliness also does not like freedom, for a person is free only when he is alone. Coercion is an inseparable companion of every society; Every society requires sacrifices, which turn out to be more difficult the more significant one’s personality is.
Man is the only animal that causes pain to others without any other purpose.
There is only one innate error - this is the belief that we are born for happiness.
It is always possible that a fair and good deed influenced by some selfish motive.
Without a woman, our life would be: at the beginning - defenseless, in the middle - without pleasure, at the end - without consolation.
The similarity between a genius and a madman is that both live in a completely different world than all other people.
Independence of judgment is the privilege of a few: the rest are guided by authority and example.
The only man who cannot live without women is a gynecologist.
We rarely think about what we have, but always worry about what we don't have.
The more a person has in himself, the less others can mean to him.
When people come into close contact with each other, their behavior resembles porcupines trying to stay warm in the cold. winter night. They are cold, they press against each other, but the more they do this, the more painfully they prick each other with their long needles. Forced to separate because of the pain of the injections, they come together again because of the cold, and so on all night long.
Getting married means halving your rights and doubling your responsibilities.
Knock on coffins and ask the dead if they want to be resurrected, and they will shake their heads.
Happiness is a feeling of freedom from pain.
Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
The world is a hospital for incurable patients.
A doctor sees a person in all his weakness, a lawyer - in all his meanness, a theologian - in all his stupidity.
The sociability of people is based not on the love of society, but on the fear of loneliness.
Wealth is like salt water: the more you drink, the more thirsty you become.
In order to voluntarily and freely recognize and appreciate other people's virtues, you must have your own.
In solitude, everyone sees in themselves what they really are.
If you want to subjugate everything, subordinate yourself to reason.
Of course, a person always does what he wants, but what he wants is always outside his power.
It is easy to preach morality, but it is difficult to justify it.
Most people, instead of striving for good, long for happiness, brilliance and longevity; they are like those stupid actors who always want to play big, brilliant and noble roles, not understanding that what matters is not what and how much to play, but how to play.
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Arthur Schopenhauer is one of the most prominent German philosophers. Arthur built the theory of his philosophy based on three sources: the philosophy of Plato, the ancient Indian treatise of the Upanishads and the transcendental philosophy of Kant. His philosophy was the first attempt to combine Western and oriental culture. The biggest difficulty of this merger was that the Eastern style of thinking was irrational, while the Western one was rational. The difference between the Eastern style of thinking and the Western one was that the irrational style was based purely on a mystical approach, that is, on the belief in the existence of higher forces unproven by science that control human life from the outside. These two theories are united by the idea that came to us from ancient mythology - that in addition to the world in which we live, we exist Parallel Worlds, beyond the reach of our reason and science. But our life becomes contradictory if we do not take this idea into circulation.
Arthur Schopenhauer - quotes
A child's hour is longer than an old man's day
From the point of view of youth, life is an endless future; from the point of view of old age, it is a very short past.
There is only one innate error - this is the belief that we are born for happiness.
The thoughts of outstanding minds cannot be filtered through an ordinary head.
If you want to subjugate everything, subordinate yourself to reason.
Each person can fully be himself only while he is alone.
What is in a person is undoubtedly more important than that what a person has.
The only man who cannot live without women is a gynecologist.
Each sees in the other only what is contained in himself, for he can comprehend it and understand it only to the extent of his own intellect.
Disease is a healing agent of nature itself with the aim of eliminating disorder in the body; therefore, medicine comes only to the aid of the healing power of nature.
And what people call fate is mostly just their own stupid tricks.
Every time a person dies, a certain world that he carries in his head dies; The more intelligent the head, the more distinct, clear, significant, and extensive this world is, the more terrible its destruction.
Just as a worker, working on the construction of a building, either does not know or does not always clearly imagine the plan of the whole, so a person, serving individual days and hours of his life, does not have general idea about the course and nature of its existence.
He who does not like loneliness does not like freedom, for only in solitude can one be free.
We must restrain our imagination in everything that concerns our happiness or unhappiness.
A truly appropriate title between two people, instead of Sir or Master... should be my fellow sufferer. As strange as it may sound, it is consistent with the facts and puts the other person in the most correct light, and also reminds us of that most necessary thing - tolerance, patience, forbearance and love for others, which each of us needs from others and which we owe give to another.
To assess a person’s situation from the point of view of happiness, one must know not what gives him satisfaction, but what is capable of saddening him, and the more insignificant this latter, the happier the person: in order to be sensitive to little things, one must live in a certain contentment: in misfortunes, because we don’t feel them at all.
Fate shuffles the cards, and we play.
Compassion for animals is so closely related to kindness of character that we can confidently say that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a kind person.
Deep truths can only be seen, and not calculated, that is, for the first time you know them, directly overshadowed by a momentary impression.
For every person, his neighbor is a mirror from which his own vices look at him; but a person acts like a dog that barks at the mirror on the assumption that it sees not itself, but another dog.
If the nonsense that we hear in a conversation begins to make us angry, we must imagine that this is a comic scene being played out between two fools; This is a tried and tested remedy.
Life is a night spent in deep sleep, often turning into a nightmare.
In some parts of the world there are monkeys, but in Europe there are Frenchmen, which is almost the same thing.
Every lie and absurdity is usually exposed because at the moment of its apogee an internal contradiction is revealed in them.
Politeness, like a gambling mark, is an openly recognized counterfeit coin. Stinginess with her proves poverty of mind, generosity, on the contrary - intelligence. Whoever takes politeness to the point of sacrificing real interests is like a person who gives out real chervonets instead of stamps.
Inner emptiness serves as the true source of boredom, forever pushing the subject in pursuit of external stimulation in order to at least somehow stir up the mind and soul.
The wise men of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, who have always constituted the vast majority, have always done the same thing - just the opposite; This will continue in the future.
He who criticizes others works on his own correction.
My philosophy gave me absolutely no income, but it saved me from a lot of expenses.
The Germans are reproached for always imitating the French and English in everything; but they forget that this is the smartest thing they, as a nation, could do, because on our own they would not produce anything efficient or good.
Man is the only animal that causes pain to others without any other purpose.
When people come into close contact with each other, their behavior is reminiscent of porcupines trying to stay warm on a cold winter night. They are cold, they press against each other, but the more they do this, the more painfully they prick each other with their long needles. Forced to separate because of the pain of the injections, they come together again because of the cold, and so on all night long.
The more a person has within himself, the less he needs from the outside, the less other people can give him.
A person gifted with spiritual powers higher order, pursues tasks that do not fit with earnings.
Death is the inspiring muse of philosophy: without it, philosophy would hardly even exist.
Born in order to direct the world through a sea of lies to the truth and lead it out of the deep abyss of savagery and vulgarity - into the light, to high culture and nobility - although they live among people, they still do not, in essence, belong to their society and therefore, from their youth, they recognize themselves as beings significantly different from them; however, a completely clear consciousness of this does not develop immediately, but over the years.
Constant mental work makes us more or less unfit for the worries and anxieties of real life.
At the end of life, it’s like at the end of a masquerade, when the masks are taken off.
Bad books are not only useless, but positively harmful. After all, nine-tenths of current literature is published only then in order to lure a couple of extra thalers out of the pockets of the gullible public.
One of the significant obstacles to the development of the human race should be considered that people listen not to the one who is smarter than others, but to the one who speaks the loudest.
The sociability of people is based not on the love of society, but on the fear of loneliness.
Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
Anyone can study science - some with more difficulty, others with less difficulty. But everyone receives from art as much as he himself is able to give.
Only at the end of a certain period of life, or even at the end of life itself, can we correctly judge our actions and creations, understand their connection and cohesion, and, finally, appreciate them at their true worth.
Who gives great importance people think it does them too much credit.
A healthy beggar is happier than a sick king.
Faith and knowledge are two scales: the higher one is, the lower the other.
In order to voluntarily and freely recognize and appreciate other people's virtues, you must have your own.
When man took all the suffering and torment to hell, there was nothing left for heaven except boredom.
What makes people sociable is their inability to tolerate loneliness—that is, themselves.
The world is a hospital for incurable patients.
This is the power of truth: its victory is difficult and painful, but once won, it can no longer be rejected.
Life and dreams are pages of the same book.
If you suspect someone of lying, pretend that you believe him, then he lies more brutally and gets caught. If there is a truth in his words that he would like to hide, pretend not to believe; he will express the rest of the truth.
We rarely think about what we have, but always worry about what we don't have.
Solitude frees us from the need to live constantly in front of others and, therefore, to take into account their opinions...
A doctor sees a person in all his weakness, a lawyer - in all his meanness, a theologian - in all his stupidity.
Wealth is like salt water: the more you drink, the more thirsty you become.
Every person can be listened to, but not everyone is worth talking to.
The similarity between a genius and a madman is that both live in a completely different world than all other people.
A person’s true character is revealed precisely in the little things, when he stops taking care of himself.
You should not be annoyed at human baseness: no matter what they say about it, it is strength.
A man of genius is not only a moral being, as ordinary people are; on the contrary, he is the bearer of the intellect of many centuries and the whole world. He therefore lives more for the sake of others than for himself.
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Every child is partly a genius, and every genius is partly a child.
The cheapest pride is national pride.
In practical life, a genius is no more useful than a telescope in the theater.
Getting married means halving your rights and doubling your responsibilities.
To erect a monument to someone during his lifetime means to announce that there is no hope that posterity will not forget him.
A suicide stops living precisely because he cannot stop wanting.
Life from the point of view of youth is an endless future; from the point of view of old age - a very short past.
My time and I do not correspond to each other; it is clear.
Love is a big obstacle in life.
We deceive no one so cleverly and bypass us with flattery as we do ourselves.
It is easy to preach morality, but it is difficult to justify it.
IN national character there are few good features: after all, its subject is the crowd.
He who does not like loneliness does not like freedom.
A doctor sees a person in all his weakness, a lawyer - in all his meanness, a theologian - in all his stupidity.
What is in a person is undoubtedly more important than what a person has.
The individual is weak, like a deserted Robinson; only in community with others can he do much.
The average person is concerned with how to kill time, but the talented person strives to use it.
I held to the truth, not the Lord God.
He who loves truth hates gods, both singular and plural.
Faith and knowledge are two sides of a scale: the higher one is, the lower the other.
People would hardly begin to philosophize if there were no death.
"Why" can be called the mother of all sciences.
My entire philosophy can be formulated in one expression: peace is the self-knowledge of the will.
Everything that is done, from the greatest to the last detail, is done necessarily.
In solitude, everyone sees in themselves what they really are.
True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, we don't know whether they're fictional or whether they exist somewhere.
The average person is a person who is constantly and with great seriousness occupied with a reality that is not really real.
What people usually call fate is, in essence, only the totality of the stupidities we have committed.
There is no better consolation in old age than the knowledge that you managed to translate all the power of youth into creations that do not age.
From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely long future; from the point of view of old age - a very short past.
A fool pursues pleasure and finds disappointment, but a wise man only avoids grief.
Of the personal qualities that most directly contribute to our happiness, a cheerful disposition.
Objectively, honor is the opinion of others about our value, and subjectively, it is our fear of this opinion.
A person’s true character is revealed precisely in the little things, when he stops taking care of himself.
It is better to discover your mind in silence than in talking.
The state is a muzzle.
For anyone who knows how to think, the movement from a push is no more understandable than the movement from an attraction: the basis of both phenomena are forces of nature unknown to us.
Free means not subject to necessity in any respect, that is, independent of any basis.
To survey what can happen requires the mind, but to survey what has already happened requires only external senses.
For many, the smartest thing to do would be to think: “I won’t change it, so I’ll try to use it.”
It is known that troubles become easier when they are endured together; People apparently include boredom among them, which is why they organize meetings to be bored together.
Each one has for the other only the meaning that the other has for him.
Thousands of pleasures do not compensate for one suffering.
Every act of a person is a necessary product of his character and the coming motive.
Character is unchanged.
Life is short, but truth acts far and lives long; Let's tell the truth!
Solitude frees us from the need to live constantly in front of others and, therefore, to take into account their opinions.
It will be too much honor for them to value people's opinions highly.
Progress is a nineteenth-century dream, just as the resurrection of the dead was a tenth-century dream; Every time has its own dreams.
Any suffering is nothing more than an unfulfilled and suppressed desire.
People are like clockwork that starts and runs without knowing why.
My philosophy gave me absolutely no income, but it saved me from a lot of expenses.
A generation will come that will joyfully approve of my every line.
My philosophy gave me nothing, but it saved me a lot.
The radiation of the Upanishads has been the solace of my life and will be the solace when I die.
My metaphysics is knowledge expressed in distinct concepts, drawn from intuition.
Since ancient times they spoke of man as a microcosm. I turned this situation around and found out that the world is a macro-anthropos.
You must understand nature from yourself, not yourself from nature. This is my revolutionary principle.
Every true thinker is in a certain sense like a monarch: he is spontaneous and does not recognize anyone above him.
1. Each person can fully be himself only while he is alone
2. Health so outweighs all other blessings of life that a truly healthy beggar is happier than a sick king
3. Getting married means halving your rights and doubling your responsibilities
4. In illness or grief, memory portrays to us every painless or needless hour as infinitely enviable, like a lost paradise. But while experiencing our red days, we do not notice them at all and yearn for them only when the dark ones come
5. In old age there is no better consolation than the knowledge that all the strength in youth was devoted to a task that does not grow old
6. A fool chases pleasure and finds disappointment, but a wise man only avoids grief.
7. The average person is concerned with how to kill time, but the talented person strives to use it
8. Nine-tenths of our happiness depends on health
9. There is only one congenital mistake - this is the belief that we are born for happiness.
10. True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, we don’t know whether they are fictional or exist somewhere.
11. A person’s true character is revealed precisely in the little things, when he stops taking care of himself
12. It is better to discover your mind in silence than in talking.
13. The similarity between a genius and a madman is that both live in a completely different world than all other people
14. Just as medicine fails to achieve its goal if the dose is too large, so do blame and criticism when they exceed the measure of justice.
15. Vanity makes a person talkative
16. Honor is external conscience, and conscience is internal honor
17. Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
18. If you do not want to make enemies for yourself, then try not to show your superiority over people
19. To erect a monument to someone during his lifetime means to declare that there is no hope that posterity will not forget him
20. Those who hope to become philosophers by studying the history of philosophy should rather take away from it the conviction that they will be born philosophers, just like poets, and, moreover, much less often
21. It will be too much honor for them to value people's opinions highly.
22. Each sees in another only what is contained in himself, for he can comprehend it and understand it only to the extent of his own intellect.
23. Solitude frees us from the need to live constantly in front of others and, therefore, take into account their opinions
24. In solitude, everyone sees in themselves what they really are.
25. He who does not like loneliness does not like freedom
26. Loneliness is the lot of all outstanding minds
27. When people enter into close communication with each other, their behavior resembles porcupines trying to warm themselves on a cold winter night. They are cold, they press against each other, but the more they do this, the more painfully they prick each other with their long needles. Forced to separate because of the pain of the injections, they come together again because of the cold, and so on all night long.
28. Just as animals perform some services better than people, for example, finding a way or a lost thing, etc., so an ordinary person is more capable and more useful in ordinary cases of life than the greatest genius. And further, just as animals never actually do stupid things, so the average person does them much less than a genius
29. What is in a person is undoubtedly more important than what a person has
30. An individual person is weak, like an abandoned Robinson: only in community with others can he do much.
31. Man is the only animal that causes pain to others without having any other purpose.
32. A person’s face expresses more and more interesting things than his mouth: the mouth expresses only the thought of man, the face expresses the thought of nature
33. You should refrain in conversation from any critical, even benevolent, remarks: it is easy to offend a person, but to correct him is difficult, if not impossible.
34. Wealth is like sea water, which makes you thirstier the more you drink
35. All scoundrels, unfortunately, are sociable
36. A poor little man, having nothing to be proud of, grabs hold of the only thing possible and is proud of the nation to which he belongs.
37. Each nation mocks the other, and they are all equally right
39. Preaching morality is easy, but justifying it is difficult.
40. Life and dreams are pages of the same book
41. We deceive no one so cleverly and do not bypass us with flattery as we do ourselves
42. Every child is part genius, and every genius is part child
43. In practical life, a genius is no more useful than a telescope in the theater.
44. From the point of view of youth, life is an endless future; from the point of view of old age - a very short past
45. Human life can, in essence, be called neither long nor short, since in essence it precisely serves as the scale by which we measure all other periods
46. A doctor sees a person in all his weakness, a lawyer - in all his meanness, a theologian - in all his stupidity.
47. Of the personal qualities that most directly contributes to our happiness, a cheerful disposition
48. The more a person has in himself, the less other people can give him. This is why intelligence leads to unsociability
49. Boredom primarily torments noble and rich people
50. Hundreds of objects that give people pleasure are boring for a big mind.
51. A very mentally limited person is essentially the happiest, although no one would envy such happiness
52. Deep knowledge is the first condition of happiness
53. The opinions of others about our lives are usually valued excessively, due to the weakness of human nature. Just as a cat purrs when petted, it is also worth praising a person so that his face will certainly shine with true bliss
54. It is necessary to moderate excessive sensitivity to other people's opinions, both if we are flattered and if we are blamed. Otherwise we will become slaves to other people's opinions and moods
55. If we happen to hear half a dozen sheep scornfully scold outstanding person, then we will understand that valuing people’s opinions highly will be a great honor for them
56. Pride is a person’s ready conviction of his own high value. Vanity is the desire to induce this belief in others
57. A vain person should know that the good opinion of others, which he so strives for, is much easier and more likely to be created by silence than by talkativeness.
58. Given the shamelessness and stupid impudence of the majority, everyone who has any internal virtues, you should show them openly so as not to let them be forgotten. This course of action is especially recommended for those who have the highest real personal merits, which cannot be constantly reminded of (titles and orders). Otherwise, the Latin proverb about the pig teaching Minerva may come true
59. He who communicates with people in simplicity of soul as equals, people will sincerely consider him an equal.
60. The cheapest pride is national. He who has great personal merits, constantly observing his nation, first of all notices its shortcomings. But a poor man, who has nothing of which he could be proud, grabs at the only thing possible and is proud of his nation; he is ready with a feeling of tenderness to defend all her shortcomings and stupidities
61. It must be admitted that there are few good features in the national character, because its subject is the crowd
62. The crowd has eyes and ears, but very little reason and just as much memory. She applauds at the moment of merit, but soon forgets about it. In this case, it is appropriate to create a reminder in the form of a cross or a star everywhere and always audible to the crowd: This one is no match for you, he has merit! However, if unfairly appointed, the order loses this value, so caution should be exercised in this regard.
63. A person sees that it is not so important to be an active member of society in one’s own opinion and conscience, as to appear as such in the opinion of others. Hence the diligent hunt for the favorable opinions of other people
64. By scolding someone, a person thereby shows that he cannot bring anything substantiated against him, because otherwise he would start with this, and would calmly leave others to draw conclusions
65. Whoever violates trust once loses it forever
66. The means cannot be more expensive than the goal
67. Rudeness is the strongest argument against which no mind can resist
68. A sage should not pay attention to insults
69. In the Middle Ages, God was forced not only to take care of us, but also to judge us
70. Each reproach can only hurt to the extent that the slightest hint that hits the target strikes much deeper than the most serious accusation that has no basis. That is why, whoever truly realizes that he does not deserve reproach will calmly despise it. And what a shaky opinion about your dignity should have one who is in a hurry to cover the mouth of any statement that offends him, so that it does not become public
71. The honor of a nation lies not only in the instilled opinion that it is to be trusted, but also that it is to be feared: therefore it must never allow any infringement of its rights to go unpunished.
72. Everyone lays claim to honor, but only exceptions to glory, for glory can only be acquired by extraordinary distinctions
73. Everyone can appreciate and understand only what is related to him and of the same essence. But the flat is related to the flat, the vulgar is related to the vulgar, and everyone likes his own works most of all, as the most related
74. Whoever wants to sum up his life in terms of well-being should count not by the pleasures he experienced, but by the number of evils he avoided
75. “Living happily” means “living less unhappily”
76. Brilliant, noisy festivals and amusements have an inner emptiness in themselves, because they loudly contradict the poverty and wretchedness of our existence
77. Academies and departments of philosophy present a sign, appearance wisdom, but it is absent there, and one must look for it in a completely different place
78. Others live too much in the present - they are frivolous; others are too busy with the future - these are fearful and caring. It is rare that someone strictly adheres to the proper measure
79. Those who miss the present, not using it and not enjoying it, and living only in the future with aspirations and hopes - such people, despite their important, wise faces, are like those donkeys in Italy, whose progress is accelerated by being tied to a bale of hay is hung on a stick in front of their nose, and they still hope to get to it. Such people deceive themselves for their entire existence, living constantly temporarily.
80. To maintain peace of mind, we must constantly remember that this day comes only once and never returns.
81. We miss thousands of pleasant hours with a gloomy expression, not enjoying them, so that later we sigh for them with vain longing
82. He who lives in the bustle of business or pleasure, without thinking through what he has experienced, but only winding up the ball of life, meaningful consciousness eludes him. His spirit represents chaos, and some confusion creeps into his thoughts, which is immediately noticed by the fragmentary and incoherent nature of his conversation.
83. You can only be in the most complete harmony with yourself; not with a friend, nor with a lover, because the difference in personality and mood each time produces some dissonance. That's why deep world peace of mind and peace of mind are possible only in solitude
84. What makes people sociable is their inability to tolerate being alone. Discontent inner emptiness- that’s what drives them into society
85. In every society, as long as it is populous, vulgarity prevails
86. When a good tone comes, it goes away common sense
87. Nature has made the sharpest difference between people in all respects. Society, neglecting this, puts everyone on the same level, and moreover, creates artificial differences according to the levels of class and rank, which are very often opposite to the rank assigned by nature
88. A person gifted with mind and spirit represents a unit, not a fraction
89. Great minds have as little inclination to get along with others as teachers do to interfere in the games of children making noise around them.
90. Just as in every city, next to the noble ones, all kinds of rabble and bastard live, so in every, even the most noble person, there are in the inclinations of completely base and vile traits of human nature. One should not excite this inner rabble and allow it to look out of the windows
91. One should always and everywhere remain master over the impressions of one’s surroundings
92. Truly great minds huddle alone like eagles on the peaks
93. Most people are so subjective that they are not interested in anything except themselves
94. A person with a correct view among those who are mistaken and confused is like one whose clock goes correctly, while all the city clocks are set incorrectly. He alone knows the present tense, but what is the use of it? Everyone checks and sets their watches to the wrong city hours, even those who know that their watches show correctly
95. It is not easy to lose a friend due to a proud and somewhat dismissive attitude, but it is very easy due to excessive friendliness and courtesy, which make him arrogant and obnoxious
96. You should be careful not to form a very favorable opinion about a person upon your first acquaintance, otherwise in most cases you will be disappointed
97. A person reveals his character in trifles and trifles, in which he does not hold back. And such cases should not be missed in order to observe about him and draw conclusions about him
98. If someone acts in petty everyday relationships without taking others into account, seeks only his own benefits to the detriment of others, then be sure that there is no justice in his heart, and that he major affairs turns out to be a scoundrel
99. Understanding a rule is one thing, but learning to apply it is another. The first is assimilated by the mind immediately, and the second - through exercises, gradually
100. Like heaviness own body you carry it without noticing its weight and feel every extraneous heaviness, so you don’t notice your own vices and shortcomings, but see only other people’s
101. Revealing your intelligence and abilities (in front of others) is only an indirect way of convicting others of mediocrity and stupidity
102. Revealing your anger and hatred on your face and in your words is useless, funny and vulgar. There is no other way to show anger and hatred than in reality.
103. Nothing can better adapt us to calmly enduring the misfortunes that befall us than the conviction of the truth that everything that is done - from the great to the last little thing - is done necessarily.
104. Just as hard wax can be made so soft with a little warmth that it takes on any shape, so the most stubborn and hostile people can be made pliable and amiable with a little politeness and affection.
105. Politeness is recognized hypocrisy
106. Politeness is a fig leaf of selfishness
107. Politeness is an openly recognized counterfeit coin
108. If we always remembered that ordinary politeness is only a mask, then we would not scream in horror if it ever moves a little or is taken off for a minute. When someone becomes downright rude, it is the same as if he took off his clothes and appeared in all his natural form.
109. Anyone who wants to be trusted in his judgment must express it calmly and without any passion
110. Never succumb to the temptation of self-praise, even if you have undeniable rights to do so.
111. A man's face speaks more than his mouth, being the monogram of all his thoughts and aspirations
112. The mouth expresses only the thought of man, the face expresses the thought of nature
113. The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it reaches its maturity
114. Men may not notice what lies under their noses, but women see it clearly
115. There is a natural indifference between men; There is already natural hostility between women
116. Just as we do not feel the general health of our body, but only a small place where the boot is pinching, so we also think not about the sum of things going quite well, but about some insignificant little thing that has annoyed us
117. Whoever wants to briefly believe the statement that pleasure exceeds pain, let him compare the sensations of two animals - the devourer and the devoured
118. We are like lambs who frolic in the meadow while the butcher chooses with his eyes this or that, for in the midst of our happy days we do not know what misfortune fate has in store for us - illness, impoverishment, blindness, mutilation or madness
119. Everything we fight for resists, for everything has its own will that must be overcome
120. History, depicting the life of peoples, only tells us about wars and disturbances: peaceful years sometimes slip by only as short pauses, as intermissions. In the same way, human life is a continuous struggle - with need, with boredom, with other people. He meets adversaries everywhere, spends his life in continuous struggle and dies with weapons in his hands.
121. If the human race did not experience need, hardship, and troubles, then people would partly die of boredom or hang themselves, partly would fight with each other and cut and strangle each other and would cause themselves much more suffering than nature imposes on them
122. Let us imagine that the act of generating a person would not be accompanied by either need or lust, but would be a matter of purely prudent reflection: could the human race still exist then?
123. The most appropriate way for people to address each other instead of: “dear sir”, “sir”, etc. should be: “comrade in suffering”
124. Courage allows for the following explanation: a person voluntarily goes towards the trouble that threatens him at the current moment, in order to thereby prevent even greater troubles in the future, while cowardice does the opposite
125. Even the greatest genius turns out to be decidedly stupid in any branch of knowledge; even the most beautiful, noble character sometimes strikes us with individual traits of depravity - as if to recognize our kinship with the human race
126. Our civilized world is nothing more than a huge masquerade. It has knights, clergy, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers. But they are not all what they represent. Under these masks hide notorious traders and speculators
127. A beautiful girl has no friends because people try to avoid her out of envy of her advantages.
128. But still, in this world, striking us again every time, phenomena of honesty, kindness and nobility, as well as great intelligence and genius, emerge very scatteredly. They shine to us from a huge dark mass, like individual shiny points
129. This is the lot of great people in the world: they are only recognized when they are no longer alive
130. If someone stands out among us, let him go - this is the unanimous slogan of mediocrity everywhere
131. As soon as an outstanding talent appears in any profession, immediately all the mediocrities of this profession try to hush up the matter and deprive him of the opportunity to become famous
132. Envy is an undoubted sign of the lack of what it is directed towards.
133. everyone can praise only at the expense of their own significance; everyone, claiming glory for another figure in his or a related specialty, in essence takes it away from himself. As a result, people are inclined not to praise, but to blame, because through this they indirectly praise themselves. If they do praise, then they have other motives and considerations for this.
134. A wig is a symbol of a scientist. He decorates his head with an abundant mass of other people's hair in the absence of his own, just like learning in adorning the head with a huge variety of other people's thoughts
135. The most perfect scholarship is to genius as a herbarium is to the ever-regenerating, ever-fresh, ever-changing world of plants
136. Constant reading takes away all elasticity from the mind, just as a constantly pressing weight takes it away from a spring, and the surest way to not have your own thoughts is to immediately grab a book at every free moment
137. The least worthwhile thing to do is to move away from contemplation for the sake of reading. real world
138. Scholars are those who have read books; but the thinkers, geniuses and movers of humanity are those who read directly in the book of the universe
139. Every great suffering, no matter whether physical or spiritual, tells us what we deserve, for it could not befall us if we did not deserve it
140. Instead of being exclusively and eternally concerned with plans and worries about the future or indulging in longing for the past, we must always remember that the present alone is real and the only certainty. Therefore, we should always honor the present with a warm welcome, enjoy every tolerable hour with a consciousness of its value, and not darken it with annoyed grimaces due to unfulfilled hopes in the past or worries about the future
Arthur Schopenhauer is one of the most famous German philosophers and thinkers, a follower of the ideas of irrationalism and misanthropy, as well as the philosophy of the Ancient East. The famous philosopher was born on February 22, 1788 in the city of Gdans, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern Poland) in a fairly wealthy family of a representative of a large trading company. Thanks to his father, Heinrich Schopenhauer, Arthur managed to get a good education- first at the private Ruhnke Gymnasium, and then at the University of Göttingen at the faculties of medicine and philosophy.
In 1811, Schopenhauer graduated from the University of Göttingen and received the title of Doctor of Philosophy in absentia from the University of Jena. In the same year, the future philosopher moved to Berlin, where he became a follower of the then famous philosopher Fichte.
After the battles of Bazeen and Lutzen, Schopenhauer had to flee Berlin and seek refuge in Saxony, where he worked as a translator and wrote his work “On the Fourfold Root of the Law of Sufficient Reason,” which was published only in 1813. Afterwards, the famous philosopher writes and publishes another of his works, “The World as Will and Idea,” which brings him real popularity. After writing these works, Schopenhauer dreams of becoming a professor at one of the universities in Berlin, but after several failures he goes to travel around Europe.
In 1833, Arthur Schopenhauer settled in Frankfurt am Main, where he lived continuously for 28 years. In April 1860, the famous philosopher began to experience serious health problems.
The most famous German philosopher passed away on September 21, 1860. After himself, Arthur Schopenhauer left a huge legacy in the form of his philosophical works, which are still used in this science to this day.
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“The doctor sees a person in all his weakness, the lawyer - in all his meanness, the theologian - in all his stupidity.”
“Just as medicine fails to achieve its goal if the dose is too large, so does blame and criticism when it exceeds the measure of justice.”
“Each person can be himself only while he is alone.”
“A person’s true character is revealed in small things when he stops taking care of himself.”
“Every child is to some extent a genius and every genius is to some extent a child.”
“Wealth is like sea water, which makes you thirstier the more you drink.”
“A person’s face expresses more and more interesting things than his mouth: the mouth expresses only the thought of man, the face expresses the thought of nature.”
“We deceive no one so cleverly and bypass us with flattery as we do ourselves.”
“There is no greater consolation for an old man than to see all the power of his youth embodied in labors that will not grow old like him.”
“What people usually call fate is, in essence, only the totality of the stupidities they have committed.”
“He who denies reason in the higher animals must have a little of it himself.”
