Arthur Schopenhauer Top 10 Quotes


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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, 1851)

9

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

8

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

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6

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena - Counsels and Maxims, 1851)

5

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851)

4

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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3

Only loss teaches us about the value of things.

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2

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena - Counsels and Maxims, 1851)

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena - Counsels and Maxims, 1851)

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Arthur Schopenhauer Biography

Born: February 22, 1788
Died: September 21, 1860

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his highly influential work "The World as Will and Representation". His thoughts has influenced many of the greatest thinkers known to us today.

Notable Works

On Vision and Colors (1816)
The World as Will and Representation (1819)
On the Freedom of the Will (1839)
On the Basis of Morality (1839)
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
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