Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Character Quotes

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

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Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

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