101 Facts of life E-Book

Arthur Schopenhauer

• Herausgeber: WS
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Seitenzahl: 17

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101 Facts of life

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101Facts of life

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Compassion is the basis of morality.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.

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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.

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

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.