A German philosopher who was deeply influenced by the ideas of the German Dominican theologian, mystic, and eclectic philosopher Meister Eckhart,
the German mystic and theosophist Jakob Boehme, and other great scholars of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
He is most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation. He is commonly known for having espoused a sort of philosophical pessimism
that saw life as being essentially evil and futile.
He was also influenced by Eastern thought, so he saw hope in aesthetics, sympathy for others and ascetic living. His ideas profoundly
influenced the fields of philosophy, psychology, and literature.
(1788-1860)
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity
for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings
are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the
pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is that in which all things pass away.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted
in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
People of wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may
accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
He was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and wide-ranging English writers of the twentieth century.
Huxley symbolized a man in his restless curiosity. He searched for meaning in a post-religious age, and was concerned about
the mistreatment of science and the future of the planet.
He was also one of the most intriguing and complex figures of twentieth-century English writing. His brain capacity was
outstanding; he was a philosopher, novelist, poet, biographer and a great social and political thinker.
In his thinking, Huxley was never confined by conventional categories, concerned to communicate his insights in ordinary language.
A very English intellectual!
(1894-1963)
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~ Dante Alighieri
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
~ James Leigh Hunt
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
