How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action? Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes From Arthur Schopenhauer Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time. Arthur Schopenhauer stars light fall In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Arthur Schopenhauer marriage rights mean That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. Arthur Schopenhauer photography character men All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer suffering needs Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. Arthur Schopenhauer human-life glitter suffering It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. Arthur Schopenhauer oedipus philosopher faces The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. Arthur Schopenhauer childhood pain light ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing. Arthur Schopenhauer our-world real way No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it. Arthur Schopenhauer mirrors air lying Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet. Arthur Schopenhauer errors eye men There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to Arthur Schopenhauer writing two firsts You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing. Arthur Schopenhauer absolutely-nothing given moments It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse. Arthur Schopenhauer reverse way The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. Arthur Schopenhauer tree pigs life The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen. Arthur Schopenhauer eight maturity men All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified. Arthur Schopenhauer ethics facts world A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. Arthur Schopenhauer character men way Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. Arthur Schopenhauer interest subjective men A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt. Arthur Schopenhauer treats hurt doe No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one. Arthur Schopenhauer modesty fool doubt
