Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
"Arthur Schopenhauer" was a Germans/German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung), in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will (philosophy)/will, continually seeking satisfaction. Influenced by Eastern philosophy, he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the Indian philosophy/sages of India"; consequently, his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (e.g., asceticism). The influence of "transcendental ideality" led him to choose atheism.
At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four distinct aspects of experience in the phenomenal world; consequently, he has been influential in the history of Phenomenology (philosophy)/phenomenology. He has influenced many thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.
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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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