Quote #122
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
More from Arthur Schopenhauer
- We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing…
- 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…
- We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.
- Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
- There is no Kantian-Fichtean philosophy: there is Kantian philosophy and there is Fichtean humbug.
- Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then you cannot do …
- There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.