A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
Tag: Schopenhauer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2023
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2023
Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.
Philipp Mainländer
2015
All cultures operate with ideology, so ubiquitous as to be invisible to those within, but blatant to those without. This is apparent when one looks upon the seemingly absurd virtues and vices of past ages and far places.
Peter Sjöstedt-H
2018
“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be – though possibly a coloured canvas and a sheet of notes will remain – because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”
Oswald Spengler
2019
“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death’s prisoner.”
Emil Cioran
2019
“One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2015
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