For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Among philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer has been labeled the artist’s philosopher on account of the inspiration his aesthetics has provided to artists of all stripes. He is also known as the philosopher of pessimism, as he expressed a worldview that challenges the value of existence.

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For our improvement we need a mirror.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Life is a constant process of dying.

In their hearts women think that it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant’s works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

My body and my will are one.

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

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