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Schopenhauer Quotes — 17 Timeless Lines
17 quotes from Schopenhauer, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.
All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.
Fate shuffles the cards; we play
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Das Schicksal mischt die Karten, und wir spielen. (영역: “life is a game of cards, when the cards are shuffled and dealt by fate.”)
A man shows his character in trifles
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles,—for then he is off his guard.
Wealth is sea-water: drink, and thirst
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.
Reading: thinking with another's head
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken. (영역: “Reading is thinking with some one else's head instead of one's own.”)
Style is the physiognomy of the mind
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Der Stil ist die Physiognomie des Geistes. (영역: “Style is the physiognomy of the mind, and a safer index to character than the face.”)
We take our own limits for the world's
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
A hypothesis feeds only on what fits
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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When an hypothesis has once come to birth in the mind, or gained a footing there, it leads a life so far comparable with the life of an organism, as that it assimilates matter from the outer world only when it is like in kind with it and beneficial.
Self-control alone frees us from force
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nothing will protect us from external compulsion so much as the control of ourselves.
Fame must be won, honour only kept
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ruhm muß daher erst erworben werden: die Ehre hingegen braucht bloß nicht verloren zu gehen. (영역: “Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”)
We mix because we cannot bear solitude
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Was nun andrerseits die Menschen gesellig macht, ist ihre Unfähigkeit, die Einsamkeit und in dieser sich selbst zu ertragen.
Life swings between pain and boredom
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui.
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The world is my idea
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung.
Willing comes of want; want is pain
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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But the basis of all willing is need, deficiency, and thus pain.
Each perfection borders on a flaw
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Jede menschliche Vollkommenheit ist einem Fehler verwandt, in welchen überzugehen sie droht; jedoch auch umgekehrt, jeder Fehler, einer Vollkommenheit.
In youth we await the curtain's rise
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
Genius hits a mark others cannot see
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Uebrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht ein Mal zu sehn vermögen.
Truth works far and lives long
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Aber das Leben ist kurz und die Wahrheit wirkt ferne und lebt lange: sagen wir die Wahrheit.
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