Quote of Arthur Schopenhauer - It is only a man's own...

Biography - Arthur Schopenhauer:

German philosopher.
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes about thought:

Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal

All about thought...

Quotes for: truth:

Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
André Gide

The language of truth is simple.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Conformity of the intellect to the things.”
Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
Carl Gustav Jung

All for: truth...

Arthur Schopenhauer also said...

Change alone is the constant.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

change

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

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.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

destiny

For our improvement we need a mirror.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

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