Quote

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

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
Remains
Limits
Knowable
World
Pessimism
Limit
Consideration
Actual
Material
Materials

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Every parting gives a foretaste of death every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Life without pain has no meaning.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
With health, everything is a source of pleasure without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
Arthur Schopenhauer