{"author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer","total_quotes":234,"quotes":[{"text":"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. ","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["women","men","enemies "],"id":845,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"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?","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["evil","pantheism","sin","theism"],"id":2054,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as it is thought, or after it has taken form, is empirically given - that is to say, is substance, the chemical element with its primary relations. Some such thing it takes, as existing absolutely and in itself, in order that it may evolve organic nature and finally the knowing subject from it, and explain them adequately by means of it; whereas in truth all that is objective is already determined as such in manifold ways by the knowing subject through its forms of knowing, and presupposes them; and consequently it entirely disappears if we think the subject away. Thus materialism is the attempt to explain what is immediately given us by what is given us indirectly.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["materialism"],"id":3114,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["life","morning","sleep "],"id":5629,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["strong"],"id":7970,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["alienation","arrogance","charity","kindness","taking-people-for-granted"],"id":9376,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"In early youth  as we contemplate our coming life  we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised  sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["youth"],"id":10664,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["intellect","philosophy"],"id":11120,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Life presents itself as a continual deception, in small matters as well as in great. If it has promised, it does not keep its word, unless to show how little desirable the desired object was; hence we are deluded now by hope, now by what was hoped for. If it has given, it did so in order to take. The enchantment of distance shows us paradises that vanish like optical illusions, when we have allowed ourselves to be fooled by them. Accordingly, happiness lies always in the future, or else in the past, and the present may be compared to a small dark cloud driven by the wind over the sunny plain; in front of and behind the cloud everything is bright, only it itself always casts a shadow. Consequently, the present is always inadequate, but the future is uncertain, and the past irrecoverable.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["dark","depressive","life"],"id":12180,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.Preface to the second edition of 'the world as will and representation.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["philosophy","schopenhauer"],"id":12697,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":234,"pages":24,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}