Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Danzig
Proper
Materials
Hell
Take
Made
World
Dante
Whence
Actual

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
Arthur Schopenhauer