The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur SchopenhauerFor 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 SchopenhauerMots clés pessimism philosophy language rhetoric
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
Arthur SchopenhauerAnd yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.
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Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.
Arthur SchopenhauerMots clés animals goodness cruelty
Die, welche schwierige, dunkle, verflochtene, zweideutige Reden zusammensetzen, wissen ganz gewiss nicht recht, was sie sagen wollen, sondern haben nur ein dumpfes, nach einem Gedanken erst ringendes Bewusstsein davon; oft aber wollen sie sich selber und anderen verbergen, dass sie eigentlich nichts zu sagen haben.
Arthur SchopenhauerMots clés writing sense clarity
كل صبي أحمق يستطيع أن يقتل حشرة، لكن كل علماء الأرض لا يستطيعون أن يخلقوا واحدة
Arthur Schopenhauerيمكن للمرء أن يفعل ما يشاء، لكنه لا يستطيع أن يريد ما يشاء
Arthur Schopenhauerالمهارة تصيب هدفا لا يمكن لأحد أن يصيبه، أما العبقرية فتصيب هدفا لا يمكن لأحد أن يراه
Arthur Schopenhauerكل الحقائق تمر بثلاث مراحل: الأولى أن تتعرض للسخرية، والثانية أن تقاوم بعنف، أما الثالثة فأن يتم اعتبارها من المسلمات
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