Arthur Schopenhauer | Philosopher ✍️

“Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2079061042219397618

"The world is not an inferior product, and animals are not a fabrication for our use." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2079059017565888839

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078971194703753493

"No rose without a thorn, but many a thorn without a rose." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078922371025502580

“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078872708348035435

Schopenhauer believed suffering was the great awakener. Do you resent those who haven't yet been awakened? https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078868742327398590

“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078795537759736192

"The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078724814475264062

“Truth is most beautiful undraped.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078606543256276999

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078515702953091480

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078375735333466338

“One should use common words to say uncommon things.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078375735060811898

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078375484040036503

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078346821491929472

“Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078342302649426306

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078255733313847543

"Ordinary people merely think how they shall «spend» their time; a man of talent tries to «use» it." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078170916047995274

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.” https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078024702279197087

"Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2078015897143328872

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax." https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerNow/status/2077969090048643273