Arthur Schopenhauer idézet

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„Leginkább a veszteség tanít bennünket a dolgok értékére.”

„A tehetség olyan célt talál el, amit senki más nem talál el. A zseni olyan célt talál el, amit senki más nem lát.”

„Az együttérzés az erkölcs alapja.”

„A boldogság az öröm gyakori ismétlésében rejlik.”

„Minden ember a saját látóterének határait a világ határainak veszi.”

„A pénz elméletileg az emberi boldogság; mindenki, aki többé nem képes a valódi boldogságra, a pénz után vágyakozik.”

„Miért látja az ember öregkorában az életet, amely mögötte van, olyan rövidnek? Mert olyan rövidnek tartja, amilyen rövid az emléke. Ebből ugyanis minden jelentéktelen és kellemetlen dolog kiesett, tehát kevés maradt meg.”

„Régóta az a véleményem, hogy az ember által problémamentesen elviselt zaj fordított arányosságban áll az illető értelmi képességeivel.”

„Képzetem a világ… a világ hordozója, minden megjelenőnek, minden objektumnak előzetes feltétele: mert bármi létezzék is, csak a szubjektum számára van.”

„Aki azért jött a világra, hogy azt komolyan és fontos dolgokban felvilágosítsa - szerencsésnek mondhatja magát ha ép bőrrel megússza.”

„A természetben mindenütt harc, küzdés és győzelem váltakozik. Az akarat minden foka küzd egymással anyagért, térért, időért… Az akaratnak önmagából kell táplálkoznia, mivel kivüle semmi nincsen, és ez egy éhes akarat. Innét a hajsza, a szorongás és a szenvedés”

„Az élet nem arra való, hogy élvezzük, hanem hogy átessünk rajta és befejezzük.”

„A szerelmet nem a férfi és nem a nő akarja, hanem az a hatalmas harmadik, aki nincs, de lenni akar.”

„A mély gyász, amelyet egy szeretett lény halálakor érzünk, abból a megérzésből fakad, hogy minden egyénben rejlik valami leírhatatlan, valami, ami csak rá jellemző, és ezért teljességgel pótolhatatlan.”

„Nincs biztosabb jele a nagyságnak, mint bántó vagy sértő nyilatkozatokat figyelembe nem venni, amennyiben, mint számtalan más tévedést is, minden teketória nélkül a beszélő gyönge megismerésének tulajdonítjuk őket, s tehát csak észrevesszük, de nem érezzük.”

„Semmit sem szeretni, sem gyűlölni" magában foglalja a felét minden életbölcsességnek; a másik fele: "Semmit sem mondani és semmit sem hinni el.”

„Nehéz megtalálni magunkban a boldogságot, de máshol lehetetlen megtalálni.”

„A gyakorlatban a nagy szív a legfőbb minősítés. Munkában remek ész.”

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner… if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.”

“the world is my idea”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”

“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”

“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others…”

“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”

“there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?”

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”

“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.”

“If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.”

“Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.”

“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.”