Creative quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was a German philosopher known for his dark philosophical clarity. Schopenhauer's most influential work, 'The World as Will and Representation', claimed that the world is fundamentally what we recognise in ourselves. His analysis led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fulfilled.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

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

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.