Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

“If a man is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we were to excuse a bad man on the same grounds we would be laughed at.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:stupidity evil

“The world is idea.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:world

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

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:world

“Hence, also, we are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature; it only appears with the motives, and only in time do the motives appear in knowledge.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:evil

“To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:evil loss

“to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:children existence

“I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:intelligence

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:boredom

“The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:contradiction

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