Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes From Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. Arthur Schopenhauer never-giving-up not-giving-up philosophical If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart. Arthur Schopenhauer want heart world The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it. Arthur Schopenhauer contact results people The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Arthur Schopenhauer education trying teacher Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live. Arthur Schopenhauer jealous hands religion If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. Arthur Schopenhauer independence results world The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. Arthur Schopenhauer principles agreement doe Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. Arthur Schopenhauer errors wish giving A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. Arthur Schopenhauer clear should writing If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease. Arthur Schopenhauer hate energy men Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Arthur Schopenhauer kind men needs Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest Arthur Schopenhauer genius children world Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. Arthur Schopenhauer affection remember world 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. Arthur Schopenhauer errors giving men To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again. Arthur Schopenhauer expectations long past Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. Arthur Schopenhauer fool passion foolish A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time. Arthur Schopenhauer giving men watches A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. Arthur Schopenhauer short-life men order Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. Arthur Schopenhauer stubbornness pessimism philosophical If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world. Arthur Schopenhauer honor mean people
