Inspirational Quotations by Arthur Schopenhauer

  • Every person takes the limits for their own field
    of vision for the limits of the world.
    From Issue 36
  • Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us;
    if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
    From Issue 261
  • All truth passes through three stages.
    First, it is ridiculed.
    Second, it is violently opposed.
    Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
    From Issue 264
  • Hatred is an affair of the heart;
    contempt that of the head.
    From Issue 291
  • The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
    From Issue 383
  • The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
    From Issue 386
  • With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
    From Issue 395

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