It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock. Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes From Arthur Schopenhauer Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain. Arthur Schopenhauer individuality perfection loss The truth can wait, for it lives a long life. Arthur Schopenhauer long-life waiting long Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself. Arthur Schopenhauer strong twilight men That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all! Arthur Schopenhauer religious god hands Unrest is the mark of existence. Arthur Schopenhauer unrest existence mark Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. Arthur Schopenhauer learning education teacher How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul ! Arthur Schopenhauer soul latin book Truth is most beautiful undraped. Arthur Schopenhauer truth-is beautiful The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. Arthur Schopenhauer causes principles roots Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important. Arthur Schopenhauer children hands reality The present is the only reality and the only certainty. Arthur Schopenhauer certainty reality Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure Arthur Schopenhauer repetition pleasure happiness Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. Arthur Schopenhauer naughty patriotic dirty Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. Arthur Schopenhauer philosophical pain positive Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. Arthur Schopenhauer boredom blessing want Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. Arthur Schopenhauer abstract satisfaction needs A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. Arthur Schopenhauer normal men needs Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image. Arthur Schopenhauer jealous religious war It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. Arthur Schopenhauer suicidal consciousness answers To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils. Arthur Schopenhauer fate evil two
