7 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Human nature

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes on human nature

28. National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

36. Was nun andrerseits die Menschen gesellig macht, ist ihre Unfahigkeit, die Einsamkeit und in dieser sich selbst zu ertragen.

39. All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

90. Jede menschliche Vollkommenheit ist einem Fehler verwandt, in welchen uberzugehn sie droht.

91. Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into.

95. No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress. Men who think and have correct judgment, and people who treat their subject earnestly, are all exceptions only. Vermin is the rule everywhere in the world: it is always at hand and busily engaged in trying to improve in its own way upon the mature deliberations of the thinkers.

132. We are struck by the psychological force and even fierceness with which he reveals the deepest recesses of the human heart.