Tag: Schopenhauer

“Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annihilation of his being.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Scoundrels are always sociable.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life without pain has no meaning.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

I know this to be true.

“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

I’ll have to check with Camera Girl to see if this is true.

post script – She confirmed it.

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Then with respect to the Left I must be the Great Satan.