To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: opinion letter impressions
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: happiness people mistake worldliness
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: youth absurdity indoctrination
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.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhat disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: life happiness youth hope delusions
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: life absurdity nothingness
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: tick-tock-by-james-patterson
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 happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: nationalism patriotism
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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