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

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.”

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

“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”

“Compassion is the basis of all morality”

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

“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.”

“A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.”

“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”

“Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!”

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“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

“You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.”