Quote

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

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
Absurdity
Mankind
Amount
Cannot
Certain
Without

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Image
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
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
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.
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
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
Arthur Schopenhauer
Image
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
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
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
Arthur Schopenhauer