Quote #120
We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.
More from Arthur Schopenhauer
- There is no Kantian-Fichtean philosophy: there is Kantian philosophy and there is Fichtean humbug.
- We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing…
- There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.
- We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
- Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it…
- What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arise…
- There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is general…
- Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.