10 Best Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

15/02/2021

     Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes about life, love and happiness: 10 Missing Schopenhauer phrases. Messages, Excerpts, Quotes and Motivational Phrases!

Who Was Arthur Schopenhauer?

     Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th century German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 masterpiece "The world as will and representation", in which he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind, insatiable and evil metaphysical will. From the transcendental idealism of Imannuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic and ethical metaphysical system that has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism.

     Schopenhauer was the philosopher who introduced Indian thought and some of the Buddhist concepts to German metaphysics. He was strongly influenced by the reading of the Upanishads, which were first translated into Latin by Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, in the early 19th century.

Schopenhauer Quotes about Life:

  • "Talent hits a target that nobody else can reach. Genius hits a target that nobody else can see."

  • "Great men are like eagles and build their nest in some high solitude."
  • "Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first."

  • "Whoever writes for fools is always sure to have a large audience."

  • "The sense of humor is the only divine quality of man."

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Schopenhauer Quotes about Love and Happiness to Reflect:

  • "Each man takes the limits of his own field of vision to the limits of the world."

  • "It is difficult to find happiness within yourself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
  • "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, as it trains people how to think."

  • "The assumption that animals have no rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarism. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."

  • "A man can only be himself while he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is truly free."

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