Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#lost #must #only #won

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 death. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#birth #day #death #each #every

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

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Por sabedoria entendo a arte de tornar a vida mais agradável e feliz possível. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy... ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#religion #schopenhauer #yama #death

Gesunder Menschenverstand kann fast jeden Grad von Bildung ersetzen, aber kein Grad von Bildung den gesunden Menschenverstand. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#wisdom #education

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#enjoyed #given #got #life #no doubt

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capital #date #death #further #higher

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#fate #great #great souls #live #souls

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#equivalent #head #instead #own #reading