Arthur Schopenhauer's best quotes
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: The world is my representation. · Fate shuffles the cards, and we play. · Every nation mocks the others, and all of them are right.. (Updated Jan 25, 2024.)
From The World as Will and Representation, Parerga and Paralipomena and the Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: Schopenhauer's best-known lines with sources.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 13
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The world is my representation.
The World as Will and Representation, Book One, § 1.
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Fate shuffles the cards, and we play.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
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Every nation mocks the others, and all of them are right.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, chapter IV.
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Usually it is only loss that teaches us the value of things.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
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Consonants are the skeleton of words, and vowels their flesh.
Parerga and Paralipomena II, § 313.
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Reading means thinking with someone else's head instead of your own.
Parerga and Paralipomena II, § 267.
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What the heart resists, the head will not let in.
The World as Will and Representation, vol. II, chapter 19.
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A man's life consists in dancing into the arms of death, fooled by hope.
The World as Will and Representation.
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It is precisely in small things, where people don't watch themselves, that they show their character.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
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Hope is confusing the desire for something to happen with its probability.
Parerga and Paralipomena II, § 324.
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What makes people sociable is their inability to bear solitude, and themselves in it.
Parerga and Paralipomena, Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
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What people commonly call fate is mostly just their own foolish pranks.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
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The brain thinks as the stomach digests.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life.
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All things are glorious to see, but terrible to be.
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, on the ages of life.
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