Excerpts from Schopenhauer's classic quotations

Arthur Schopenhauer, February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860, died at the age of 72, a famous German writer and scholar . I have excerpted some Schopenhauer's classic quotations to share below, welcome to read.

Selection of Schopenhauer’s classic quotations

1. When we read, others are thinking for us, and we just repeat the process of his thought activities, just like children learning calligraphy for enlightenment When writing, use the pen to draw a gourd according to the strokes written by the teacher in pencil. A large part of our mental activity is relieved when we read. Therefore, when we stop thinking for ourselves and read a book, we feel very relaxed. However, when reading, our minds actually become a playground for other people's thoughts. Therefore, a person who reads more, or who is immersed in reading all day long, can rest his mind, but his thinking ability will gradually lose, just like a person who often rides a horse will have poor walking ability. The same reason.

2. A person with a great heart will always be the king compared to his heart.

3. Time is infinite, and human life is limited. In order to use limited time to compete with infinite time, people have adopted the method of reproduction, so that their lives can be continued at all times. This is the human instinct to reproduce.

4. Every rose in the world has thorns. If you give it up because you are afraid of pricking your hands, then you will never get the fragrance of roses.

5. Will is the will to live, and its eternal enemy is death. ?It uses reproductive strategies and the sacrifice of reproduction to defeat death. ?Reproduction is the ultimate goal and the strongest instinct of all living organisms.

6. In the first forty years of a person’s life, he wrote this article, and in the next thirty years, he continued to add notes to this article.

7. What a person is has a greater impact on his happiness than what he has and what others say about him.

8. People are like hedgehogs in the cold winter. If they are too close to each other, they will feel stinging; if they are too far away from each other, they will feel cold; people must maintain an appropriate distance to live.

9. Ordinary people only think about how to spend their time, while talented people try to make use of their time.

10. Beauty is the highest level of charity, and creating beauty is the highest level of pleasure.

11. The first category is the pleasure obtained from satisfying the vitality, which is represented by food, drink, digestion, rest, drink and sleep; in some parts of the world, this basic pleasure is Typically, almost everyone enjoys this pleasure.

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

13. Will is the will to live, and its eternal enemy is death. ?It uses reproductive strategies and the sacrifice of reproduction to defeat death. ?Reproduction is the ultimate goal and the strongest instinct of all living organisms.

14. Labouye said: "We suffer all the misfortunes because we cannot be alone." The more a person has of himself, the less others can give him. For when alone a wretch feels all his wretchedness, and a man of rich thoughts only feels his rich thoughts. In a word: one feels only one's own self. Only when a person is alone can he be fully himself. Anyone who does not love being alone does not love freedom, because only when a person is alone can he be free. "About Solitude"

15. Wealth is like sea water. The more you drink, the more thirsty you become; the same is true for fame.

16. Our misfortunes are often due to our pursuit of pleasure! When we start doing things, we like to hold a belief: we must be able to find some kind of pleasure in the world

17. Things itself does not affect people, people are only affected by their views on things.

18. Bad books are poison that damages our spiritual thoughts.

19. Desire that is too violent and intense will no longer just affirm one’s own existence, but will instead deny or cancel the existence of others.

20. Life is a language that conveys a certain truth to us; if we understand it in another way, we will not survive. Collection of Schopenhauer's classic quotations

1. Even the most insignificant day has the advantage of reality compared with the most insignificant yesterday.

2. If a person is young, handsome, rich and respected, and you want to know if he is happy, just ask him if he is happy. If he is happy, whether he is young, old, straight or bent, rich or without money, what does it have to do with his happiness? All in all, he is happy.

3. Even the most healthy and happy person in the world may commit suicide. As long as his fear of external difficulties and inevitable misfortune exceeds his fear of death, he will naturally take the road of suicide. .

4. Style is the appearance of the soul

5. The world is steeped in sin: savages eat each other, civilized people deceive each other. This is what is called the way of the world. A wise person knows how to keep a certain distance from the fire when keeping warm, and will not get too close to the fire like a fool. After the latter burns himself, he plunges into the cold loneliness and complains loudly about the burning flames. "The Wisdom of Life"

6. Man has always been painful, because his essence falls into the hands of pain.

7. In literature, there are countless bad books, like flourishing weeds, hurting grains and causing them to wither. They were originally written for the sake of money and seeking official positions, but they caused readers to waste time, money and energy, preventing them from reading good books and doing noble things. Therefore, they are not only useless but also very harmful.

8. Waiting is an excuse for laziness and an excuse for laziness.

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

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

11. Human beings are the embodiment of desires and needs.

12. In interacting with others, people are like the moon and the hunchback, always showing one side.

13. Once the business of the race, that is, fertilization, is completed, what follows for every animal is the instantaneous exhaustion and exhaustion of all potentialities, and for most insects even A swift death.

14. Geniuses can gain insight into the world in front of them and then discover the other side of the world.

15. People can only live according to the experience revealed by nature.

16. What lasts is not wealth but human character.

17. 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.

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

19. Life is pain, we can turn pain into pleasure

20. Whenever possible, a person should think like a great genius and speak like an ordinary person.

21. When a person looks in the mirror, he will never look at himself with the eyes of a stranger. His self-awareness will only keep whispering to himself: What I see is not another self. , but my self.

22. Reason sometimes seems to be able to guide the will, but it is only like a master who wants to guide him; the will is a brave and strong blind man, carrying a bright lame man who can show him the way.

23. We do not desire something just because we have discovered various reasons to desire it, but we desire something precisely because we find various reasons to desire it. ?So logic is useless, no one relies on logic to convince anyone; even logicians only use logic as a source of income.

24. The cause of social interaction lies in the monotony and emptiness of people’s lives. Social needs drive them together, but their many disgusting qualities drive them apart. Finally, they found the appropriate distance that they can tolerate each other, that is politeness

25. ?Keep a considerable distance between thinking and speaking?

26. A spring is like a long-term support We will lose elasticity under the pressure of external objects. The same goes for our spirit. If we are constantly pressured by other people's thoughts, we will also lose its elasticity.

27. Although my philosophy has not made me half a penny, it has saved me a lot of expenses. The effect of my mental life is the same.

28. Marriage means equal sharing of personal rights and obligations.

29. Desire that is too violent and intense will no longer just affirm one’s own existence, but will instead deny or cancel the existence of others.

30. No one lives in the past/and no one lives in the future. The present moment is the only form that life truly possesses.

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