Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Conscience, Morality, Self-judgment, Personal Growth, Ethical Reflection
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“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Tragedy, Comedy, Life Experience, Perspective, Human Journey
Arthur Schopenhauer Tragedy, Comedy, Life Experience, Perspective, Human Journey“A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Reproach, Self-awareness, Emotional Resilience, Perception, Personal Values
Arthur Schopenhauer Reproach, Self-awareness, Emotional Resilience, Perception, Personal Values“The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame, Time, Recognition, Societal Perception, Success
Arthur Schopenhauer Fame, Time, Recognition, Societal Perception, Success“Fundamentally it is only our own basic thoughts that possess truth and life, for only these do we really understand through and through. The thoughts of another that we have read are crumbs from another’s table, the cast-off clothes of an unfamiliar guest.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Thoughts, Individuality, Understanding, Authenticity, Human Experience
Arthur Schopenhauer Thoughts, Individuality, Understanding, Authenticity, Human Experience“All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continuously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Desire, Suffering, Needs, Intellect, Free Will
Arthur Schopenhauer Desire, Suffering, Needs, Intellect, Free Will“The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Persona, Identity, Masks, Authenticity, Social Roles
Arthur Schopenhauer Persona, Identity, Masks, Authenticity, Social Roles“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Journalism, Exaggeration, Media, Storytelling, Art
Arthur Schopenhauer Journalism, Exaggeration, Media, Storytelling, Art“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.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Perception, Relationship, Response, Opinion, Emotional Reaction
Arthur Schopenhauer Perception, Relationship, Response, Opinion, Emotional Reaction“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Communication, Clarity, Authenticity, Style
Arthur Schopenhauer Writing, Communication, Clarity, Authenticity, Style“Instead of developing the child’s own faculties of discernment, and teaching it to judge and think for itself, the teacher uses all his energies to stuff its head full of the ready-made thoughts of other people. The mistaken views of life, which spring from a false application of general ideas, have afterwards to be corrected by long years of experience; and it is seldom that they are wholly corrected.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Education, Teaching, Individuality, Critical Thinking, Societal Influence
Arthur Schopenhauer Education, Teaching, Individuality, Critical Thinking, Societal Influence“That which has been exists no more; it exists as little as that which has never been.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Existence, Time, Impermanence, Memory, Reality
Arthur Schopenhauer Existence, Time, Impermanence, Memory, Reality“A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. In the same way, a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowledge, Organization, Learning, Value, Intellectual Independence
Arthur Schopenhauer Knowledge, Organization, Learning, Value, Intellectual Independence“We learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of false hope.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Suffering, Reality, Illusion, Human Experience
Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Suffering, Reality, Illusion, Human Experience“Therefore if egoism has a firm hold of a man and masters him, whether it be in the form of joy, or triumph, or lust, or hope, or frantic grief, or annoyance, or anger, or fear, or suspicion, or passion of any kind – he is in the devil’s clutches and how he got into them does not matter. What is needful is that he should make haste to get out of them; and here, again, it does not matter how.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Egoism, Human Nature, Emotions, Entrapment, Personal Struggle
Arthur Schopenhauer Egoism, Human Nature, Emotions, Entrapment, Personal Struggle“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!” Arthur Schopenhauer
Society, Gambling, Thoughtlessness, Commentary, Human Folly
Arthur Schopenhauer Society, Gambling, Thoughtlessness, Commentary, Human Folly“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Self-sufficiency, External Factors, Fulfillment, Human Experience
Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Self-sufficiency, External Factors, Fulfillment, Human Experience“Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Materialism, Self-awareness, Philosophy, Human Nature, Existential Critique
Arthur Schopenhauer Materialism, Self-awareness, Philosophy, Human Nature, Existential Critique“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
Life, Daily Cycle, Birth And Death, Perspective, Time
Arthur Schopenhauer Life, Daily Cycle, Birth And Death, Perspective, Time