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Schopenhauer's 50 most classic sayings

1. Time is infinite, and human life is limited. In order to use limited time to compete with infinite time, people adopt the method of reproduction to extend their life time. This is the human instinct to reproduce. ——Schopenhauer

2. Why does the road to life always seem so long when we are young? Because we have to find space to fill our infinite hopes - Schopenhauer

3. Allow children to obtain in their own way - Schopenhauer

4. Cause Unfortunately it is blindness, fate, that is, chance and error. ——Schopenhauer

5. Therefore, the first advice is "life comes before books", and the second advice is "text comes before notes", that is, experience comes before thinking and understanding. ——Schopenhauer

6. Bad books are poison that damages our spiritual thoughts. ——Schopenhauer

7. If desire is too violent and intense, it will no longer just affirm one's own existence, but will instead deny or cancel the existence of others. ——Schopenhauer

8. A person’s face says more and more interesting things than a person’s mouth, because the mouth only tells people’s thoughts, while the face tells the thoughts. nature. ——Schopenhauer

9. Ordinary people only care about how to kill time, while slightly talented people think about how to use time. ——Schopenhauer

10. The boundless world is full of pain, endless in the past and endless in the future. That is something he cannot understand. In his opinion, it is even just a fairy tale. ——Schopenhauer

11. All pain is never anything else, but unsatisfied and thwarted desires. ——Schopenhauer

12. Mediocre people care about how to waste their time, while talented people try their best to use their time. ——Schopenhauer

13. In the natural tendency of human psychology, we often forget our past happy experiences, but we can rarely erase painful encounters. This proves that human beings are fundamentally innate. Uehara is with pain. ——Schopenhauer

14. Human beings are the embodiment of desires and needs. ——Schopenhauer

15. Marriage means equal sharing of personal rights and obligations. ——Schopenhauer

16. Style is the appearance of the soul. ——Schopenhauer

17. If we suspect a person of lying, we should pretend to believe him, because he will become more and more brave and confident, and lie more boldly, and finally he will Unmask yourself. ——Schopenhauer

18. Things themselves remain unchanged, only people’s feelings change! ——Schopenhauer

19. Friendship is like the legendary sea monster. Everyone vividly describes it, but it still needs to be confirmed. It may be harder to have a friend who is closer than a brother as the Bible says, than to catch a glimpse of Nessie! ——Schopenhauer

20. A certain amount of sorrow, pain or trouble is necessary for everyone from time to time. A ship without ballast would not be stable and move forward toward its destination. ——Schopenhauer

21. No one lives in the past, and no one lives in the future. The present is the only form that life truly possesses. ——Schopenhauer

22. If we often lament the shortness of life, isn’t the shortness a kind of luck? ——If we often lament the pain and misfortune we have encountered in life, and all are placed in front of his eyes, he will definitely be surprised and shudder. ——Schopenhauer

23. There are two enemies of human happiness: pain and boredom. Furthermore, even if we are lucky enough to be far away from pain, we are close to boredom; if we are far away from boredom, we are close to pain again. ——Schopenhauer

24. Our misfortunes are often due to our pursuit of happiness! When we start doing things, we like to hold a belief: we will definitely find some kind of happiness in the world - Schopenhauer

25. All people and children will get carried away when they are doted on. The same; therefore, one should not be generous to others, nor should one be too gentle to others. ——Schopenhauer

26. Wisdom is just theory without putting it into practice. It is like a double rose. Although the flower is bright and fragrant, it withers but has no seeds. ——Schopenhauer

27. Due to the inner emptiness, people seek social interaction, leisure time, entertainment and various enjoyments, thus resulting in luxury, waste and disaster. ——Schopenhauer

28. Thought does not come when you want it to come, but it determines its own coming and going. ——Schopenhauer

29. Only long-term pain will become excessive pain. ——Schopenhauer

30. Disaster occurs in an instant. ——Schopenhauer

31. All desires are derived from defects, that is, from pain. ——Schopenhauer

32. An individual person is weak and powerless, just like the drifting Robinson. Only by being with others can he accomplish many things. ——Schopenhauer

33. Fatigue is like pain, its location is in the brain; muscles (such as the heart) that are not connected to the brain will never fatigue. ——Schopenhauer

34. Small people are often proud of the shortcomings or mistakes of great people.

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35. There is a beast hidden in everyone's heart, just waiting for the opportunity to roar and rage, wanting to inflict pain on others, or in other words, if others do something to him If they get in the way, they will kill others. ——Schopenhauer

36. What the poor have to endure is pain, and what the rich suffer is boredom. Who can say that boredom is not pain. ——Schopenhauer

37. The life of a human being must be full of worries to maintain its survival under the strict requirements of innovation. ——Schopenhauer

38. The greatest comfort in old age is to realize that all the power of youth has been dedicated to the cause of never aging. ——Schopenhauer

39. Ordinary revenge is to relieve the pain one has suffered by seeing the pain one has inflicted on the enemy. ——Schopenhauer

40. Reputation is the conscience expressed on the outside; conscience is the reputation hidden on the inside. ——Schopenhauer

41. Because enthusiasm depends on an illusion, which regards what is valuable only to the race as also valuable to the individual, so after the purpose of the race is achieved, the deception of nature must be disappear. Individuals find themselves the object of racial deception. ——Schopenhauer

42. Ordinary people only think about how to spend their time, but talented people try to use their time. ——Schopenhauer

43. Life is a language that conveys a certain truth to us; if we learn it in another way, we will not survive. ——Schopenhauer

44. Religion is like a firefly. In order to shine, there must be darkness. ——Schopenhauer

45. The God of opportunity shows us with unparalleled skill that compared with its favor and kindness, any talent and ability are ineffective and useless——Schopenhauer

46. People must rely on bread and entertainment. Fatigue, like hunger, often tends to lead people to indulgence and indiscretion, so it is often used as an object to prevent disasters. ——Schopenhauer

47. Even if a thousand people live in happiness and joy, as long as one person is not immune to the torture of restlessness, old age and death, we cannot deny the existence of pain. ——Schopenhauer

48. People inflict pain on their own kind for no other reason than out of malice. Of all animals, only humans do this - Schopenhauer

49. One of the strongest motivations that leads people to art and science is to escape the disgusting vulgarity of daily life. and despairing dullness, to be freed from the shackles of man's own capricious desires.

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50. There is something smarter than our brains——Schopenhauer