Quote

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

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
Necessity
Happens
Everything

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
One should use common words to say uncommon things
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Reason is feminine in nature it can only give after it has received.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Mensch kann tun was er will er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
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
Image
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight a woman at eighteen.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
Arthur Schopenhauer