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Arthur Schopenhauer

  • mimotaa666alıntı yaptı17 gün önce
    experience the commiseration that alone is the peace to which the Gospel calls us. The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary, to regard him as an object of
  • mimotaa666alıntı yaptı17 gün önce
    When you come into contact with a man, no matter whom, do not attempt an objective appreciation of him according to his worth and dignity. Do not consider his bad will, or his narrow understanding and perverse ideas; as the former may easily lead you to hate and the latter to despise him; but fix your attention only upon his sufferings, his needs, his anxieties, his pains. Then you will always feel your kinship with him; you will sympathise with him; and instead of hatred or contempt you
  • mimotaa666alıntı yaptı17 gün önce
    seems to me that the idea of dignity can be applied only in an ironical sense to a being whose will is so sinful, whose intellect is so limited, whose body is so weak and perishable as man's. How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!—
  • Liamalıntı yaptı10 ay önce
    The one half is the object, whose forms are space and time, and through these plurality. But the other half, the subject, does not lie in space and time, for it is whole and undivided in every representing being. Hence a single one of these beings with the object completes the world as representation just as fully as do the millions that exist
  • Liamalıntı yaptı10 ay önce
    Now in this respect, the true opposite of rational knowledge (Wissen) is feeling (Gefühl)

    Shapiro mode

  • Liamalıntı yaptı9 ay önce
    It is therefore wrong to say that “gravity is the cause of a stone’s falling”; the cause is rather the nearness of the earth, since it attracts the stone. Take away the earth, and the stone will not fall, although gravity remains
  • Liamalıntı yaptı9 ay önce
    Without the object, without the representation, I am not knowing subject, but mere, blind will;
  • Liamalıntı yaptı9 ay önce
    The glance of the man in whom genius lives and works readily distinguishes him; it is both vivid and firm and bears the character of thoughtfulness, of contemplation.
  • Liamalıntı yaptı9 ay önce
    The disinclination of men of genius to direct their attention to the content of the principle of sufficient reason will show itself first in regard to the ground of being, as a disinclination for mathematics.
  • Liamalıntı yaptı9 ay önce
    Experience has also confirmed that men of great artistic genius have no aptitude for mathematics; no man was ever very distinguished in both at the same time.
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