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Arthur Schopenhauer

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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#life #nothingness #life

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#writing-craft #business

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#life #tragedy #life

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#drink #fame #like #more #same

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#noise #noise-pollution #intelligence

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#reading #schopenhauer #art

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#art

Life is a constant process of dying.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#life

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#life

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#nobility #rascals #social #nobility






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This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics in the words of Leon Poliakov to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters". If we could castrate all scoundrels and stick all stupid geese in a convent and give men of noble character a whole harem and procure men and indeed thorough men for all girls of intellect and understanding then a generation would soon arise which would produce a better age than that of Pericles. He quotes Horace's saying "From the brave and good are the brave descended" (Odes iv 4 29) and Shakespeare's line from Cymbeline "Cowards father cowards and base things sire base" (IV 2) to reinforce his hereditarian argument.

Influenced by Eastern thought he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (i. He has influenced a long list of thinkers including Friedrich NietzscheRichard Wagner Ludwig Wittgenstein Erwin Schrödinger Albert EinsteinSigmund Freud Otto Rank Carl Jung Joseph Campbell Leo Tolstoy Thomas Mann and Jorge Luis Borges.

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