"A man becomes a philosopher by reason..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.”
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
“You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.”
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“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.”
“Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?”
“Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.”
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“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”
“Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.”
“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”