Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Danzig
Right
Name
Littleness
Every
Names
Mocks
Nations
Perversity
Another
Baseness
Form
National
Character
Mankind
Take
Nation
Country
Particular
More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Arthur Schopenhauer
One should use common words to say uncommon things
Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones for life is short, and time and energy limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
