958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

  • Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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    There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

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    To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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    If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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    Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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    He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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