We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in... by Arthur Schopenhauer | We Heart Quotes

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Man

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice. That suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion Present Truth

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Distrust Mind

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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