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

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Uebrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht ein Mal zu sehn vermögen...
Vol. II, Ch. III, para. 31 (On Genius), 1844
As cited in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers‎ (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 137
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
Variante: Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Quelle: Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

Meistens belehrt uns erst der Verlust über den Wert der Dinge.
Quelle: Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.”
Obit anus, abit onus.

Statement Schopenhauer wrote in Latin into his account book, after the death of a seamstress to whom he had made court-ordered payments of 15 thalers a quarter for over twenty years, after she had accused him of having injured her arm; as quoted in Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann (1877) by Francis Bowen, p. 392. Schopenhauer had won the original case, and, being assured by the head of the Kammergericht that the original judgment would be upheld, he left Berlin. In his absence, the judgement was overturned. Schopenhauer believed that the seamstress was feigning her injuries and that she would be sly enough to do so for the remainder of her life. The only visible signs of the assault were a few minor bruises. ; as quoted in A Biography" (2010) by David E. Cartwright, p. 408-411.

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

Quelle: Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

“The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand”

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Vol. I, Ch. III, The World As Representation
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
Kontext: The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

“Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.”

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Vol. I, Ch. 10, as translated by R. B. Haldane
Variant translations:
Reason is feminine in nature; it can give only after it has received. Of itself alone, it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.
As translated by Eric F. J. Payne (1958) Vol. II, p. 50
Reason is feminine in nature: it will give only after it has received.
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
Kontext: Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation. There is no absolutely pure rational knowledge except the four principles to which I have attributed metalogical truth; the principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle, and sufficient reason of knowledge. For even the rest of logic is not absolutely pure rational knowledge. It presupposes the relations and the combinations of the spheres of concepts. But concepts in general only exist after experience of ideas of perception, and as their whole nature consists in their relation to these, it is clear that they presuppose them.

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

As attributed in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 624

“According to me, the influence of Sanskrit literature on our time will not be lesser than what was in the 16th century Greece's influence on Renaissance. One day, India's wisdom will flow again on Europe and will totally transform our knowledge and thought.”

Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

preface of his The World as Will and Representation., quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)