Arthur Schopenhauer · Skopia

Quotes

10

Philosophical literature

The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea · 1819

★ 6.9

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Psychological Remarks · 1851

★ 5.3

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What a Man Is · 1851

★ 4.4

Philosophical literature

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Studies in Pessimism · 1851

★ 3.7

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Books

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The World as Will and Representation

Arthur Schopenhauer

1859★ 7.1