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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Funny, Writing, Humor
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.12, Publishdrive

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

Arthur Schopenhauer
Envy, Feels, Savour

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reality, Certainty

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happy, Philosophical, Inspiration
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.15, Cosimo Classics

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

Arthur Schopenhauer
Stupid, Reading, Thinking

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Different, Genius, World

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Way, Miserable
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.12, Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, War, Animal
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.214, Oxford University Press

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Morning, Silly, Sleep
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Relationship, Sympathy, Money
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.54, Publishdrive

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Dream, Character, Dreamer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer
Inspirational, Science, Men
Studies in Pessimism "Psychological Observations" (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunders)

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Death, Suicide, Philosophical
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Lying, Believe, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.464, Oxford University Press

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Perfect, Plot, Looks

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, Eels, Snakes

Scoundrels are always sociable.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Scoundrels, Human Condition, Sociable

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Money, Philosophical, Sea
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.57, Publishdrive

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.109, Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

Arthur Schopenhauer
World, Study, Solace

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Character, Animal, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive

Life without pain has no meaning.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Without Pain

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Education, Teacher, Learning

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