7 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Intellect

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes on intellect

6. If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

41. How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

55. Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

69. A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument - a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself - in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

82. A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

83. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

119. There is no Kantian-Fichtean philosophy: there is Kantian philosophy and there is Fichtean humbug.