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“Genius lives only one storey above madness”
Arthur Schopenhauer“Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it off-hand for what it is. This is the true sense of the maxim--Live and let live. That, however, is a task which is difficult in proportion as it is right; and he is a happy man who can once for all avoid having to do with a great many of his fellow creatures.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, intellectual distinction leads to unsociability.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“God, who in the beginning was the creator, appears in the end as revenger and rewarder. Deference to such a God admittedly can produce virtuous actions; however, because fear of punishment or hope for reward are their motive, these actions will not be purely moral; on the contrary, the inner essence of such virtue will amount to prudent and carefully calculating egoism.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“the origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for both imply optimism. However, evil and sin, both in their terrible magnitude, cannot be disavowed; indeed, because of the promised punishments for the latter, the former is only further increased. Whence all this, in a world that is either itself a God or the well-intentioned work of a God?”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think you have an audience of old women in front of you?”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena“Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena