Quote

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

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
Waiting
Speak
Art
Patiently
Must
Till
Great
Treat
Work
Treats
Men
Wait
Like
Stand

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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
Image
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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
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
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
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
Image
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
Arthur Schopenhauer