Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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
Leave
Trouble
Either
Vexations
Full
Vexation
Means
Corrected
Must
Troubles
Mean
Rise
Life
Thoughts
More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every genius is a great child he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Arthur Schopenhauer
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
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 good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is like sea-water the more we drink, the thirstier we become and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
Arthur Schopenhauer
