Arthur schopenhauer quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February – 21 September) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation ().

Arthur schopenhauer quotes

Quotes

• It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that distinguishes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer.

  But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

• Obit anus, abit onus.
  • The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
    • Statement Schopenhauer wrote in Latin into his account book, after the death of a seamstress to whom he had made court-ordered payments of 15 thalers a quarter for over twenty years, after she had accused him of having injured her arm; as quoted in Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann