Philosophy Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.”

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

“The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.”

“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”

“Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point”

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

“Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.”

“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'”

“He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against”

“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like”