The World as Will and Representation Quotes

“We might call what lies at the foundation of this process the memory of the heart; it is much more intimate than that of the head.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:heartmemory

“Answering to this, all religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:heartunderstandingreligionwill

“This is why the effect of music is so much more powerful and penetrating than that of the other arts, for they speak only of shadows, but it speaks of the thing itself.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:powermusicart

“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:beauty

“Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:wordsreasonpassionmusic

“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:stupidityevil

“The world is idea.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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:evilloss

“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