Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Doctors Lawyers and Theologian
Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Doctors Lawyers and Theologian
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
More Quotes of Arthur Schopenhauer :
1. Arthur Schopenhauer about books and studies :
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
2. Arthur Schopenhauer about Life and Truth work :
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
3. Arthur Schopenhauer about Real Opinion :
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
4. Arthur Schopenhauer about
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”― Arthur Schopenhauer
5. Arthur Schopenhauer about Truth :
“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
6. Arthur Schopenhauer about a poet or philosopher :
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature
7. Arthur Schopenhauer about Own Vision :
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
8. Arthur Schopenhauer about Rise of Life :
“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”― Schopenhauer
9. Arthur Schopenhauer about tolerance, patience, forbearance and charity :
“The conviction that the world, and therefore man too, is something which really ought not to exist is in fact calculated to instil in us indulgence towards one another: for what can be expected of beings placed in such a situation as we are? From this point of view one might indeed consider that the appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de misères. However strange this may sound it corresponds to the nature of the case, makes us see other men in a true light and reminds us of what are the most necessary of all things: tolerance, patience, forbearance and charity, which each of us needs and which each of us therefore owes.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
10. Arthur Schopenhauer about Hell :
“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”― Arthur Schopenhauer
11. Arthur Schopenhauer about Error and False
“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.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
12. Arthur Schopenhauer about Civilized World :
“Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.”― Arthur Schopenhauer
13. Arthur Schopenhauer about Torch Kindle :
“Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
14. Arthur Schopenhauer about Happyness :
“A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
15. Arthur Schopenhauer about Striving for Exist :
“What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
16. Arthur Schopenhauer about Each Day
“Each day is a little life.”― Arthur Schopenhauer
“The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims
“Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man, a degree which is the higher the more intelligent the man is; to this world it has been sought to apply the system of optimism, and demonstrate to us that it is the best of all possible worlds. The absurdity is glaring.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily have been found already written in a book: but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and stamp of your whole manner of thinking, and have arrived at just the moment it was needed ; thus it will stay firmly and forever lodged in your mind.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see there!' and then they are gone for ever. The planets and comets last for a much longer time....The fixed stars alone are constant and unalterable; their position in the firmament is fixed; they have their own light and are at all times active, because they do not alter their appearance through a change in our standpoint, for they have no parallax. Unlike the others, they do not belong to one system (nation) alone, but to the world. But just because they are situated so high, their light usually requires many years before it becomes visible to the inhabitatns of earth.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
“Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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