More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death ... This world could not have …
  2. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
  3. Have these gentlemen of the scalpel and crucible no notion at all then that they are first and foremost men and chemists only secondly? How…
  4. In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
  5. From every sentence deep, original and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit....In the wh…
  6. In the West, where our skin has turned White, we have ceased to recognise our kinship with animals.
  7. The law of simplicity and naivete applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. True brevity of expression consi…
  8. Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of major effort.

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