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“Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

Die Erinnerung wirkt wie das Sammlungsglas in der Camera obscura: Sie zieht alles zusammen und bringt dadurch ein viel schöneres Bild hervor, als sein Original ist.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

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

“My body and my will are one.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Book 1
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to become.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Jede menschliche Vollkommenheit ist einem Fehler verwandt, in welchen überzugehn sie droht.
Zur Ethik
Essays

“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 them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Essays, On Authorship and Style

“Consider the Koran… this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

E. Payne, trans., Vol. II, Ch. XVII: On Man's Need for Metaphysics
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 346
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

"On the Sufferings of the World"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Quoted by Jorge Luis Borges in his essay "A History of Eternity"
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism

“In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“The Philistine … is a man without intellectual needs. Now it follows from this that, as regards himself, he is left without any intellectual pleasures in accordance with the principle, il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins. [There are no true pleasures without true needs. ]”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

Der Philister … ist demnach ein Mensch ohne geistige Bedürfnisse. Hieraus nun folgt gar mancherlei: erstlich, in Hinsicht auf ihn selbst, daß er ohne geistige Genüsse bleibt; nach dem schon erwähnten Grundsatz: il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins.
E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

Vol. 2, Ch. 25, sect. 298
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims

“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Wirklich ist jedes Kind gewissermaßen ein Genie, und jedes Genie gewissermaßen ein Kind.
Bd. 2, § 3.31, p. 451
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

Ruhm muß daher erst erworben werden: die Ehre hingegen braucht bloß nicht verloren zu gehen.
Vol. 1. Ch. 4: Position, or a Man's Place in the Estimation of Others, §4-Honor
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“My basis is supported by the authority of the greatest moralist of modern times; for such, undoubtedly, J. J. Rousseau is,—that profound reader of the human heart, who drew his wisdom not from books, but from life, and intended his doctrine not for the professorial chair, but for humanity; he, the foe of all prejudice, the foster-child of nature, whom alone she endowed with the gift of being able to moralise without tediousness, because he hit the truth and stirred the heart.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch On the Basis of Morality

Part III, Ch. VIII, 9, p. 230 https://archive.org/stream/basisofmorality00schoiala#page/230/mode/2up
On the Basis of Morality (1840)

“All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

“Framed with regard to the established religion, this philosophy runs essentially parallel thereto; and so, being perhaps intricately composed, curiously trimmed, and thus rendered difficult to understand, it is always at bottom and in the main nothing but a paraphrase and apology of the established religion. Accordingly, for those teaching under these restrictions, there is nothing left but to look for new turns of phrase and forms of speech by which they arrange the contents of the established religion. Distinguished in abstract expressions and thereby rendered dry and dull, they then go by the name of philosophy.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

In Folge hievon wird, so lange die Kirche besteht, auf den Universitäten stets nur eine solche Philosophie gelehrt werden dürfen, welche, mit durchgängiger Rücksicht auf die Landesreligion abgefaßt, dieser im Wesentlichen parallel läuft und daher stets,—allenfalls kraus figurirt, seltsam verbrämt und dadurch schwer verständlich gemacht,—doch im Grunde und in der Hauptsache nichts Anderes, als eine Paraphrase und Apologie der Landesreligion ist. Den unter diesen Beschränkungen Lehrenden bleibt sonach nichts Anderes übrig, als nach neuen Wendungen und Formen zu suchen, unter welchen sie den in abstrakte Ausdrücke verkleideten und dadurch fade gemachten Inhalt der Landesreligion aufstellen, der alsdann Philosophie heißt.
Sämtliche Werke, Bd. 5, pp. 152–153, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 140
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Philosophy in the Universities

“The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 22
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real

“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.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

Vol. 1, Ch. 3, Section 2: Pride
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life