The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Related:
- The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party,
when the masks are dropped.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)... - Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the worls.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosophe... - No man knows of what stuff he is made until prosperity and ease try him. -- A.P. Gouthey
- The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse
proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a
pretty fair measure of it.
... Noise is a torture to all intellectual people. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)... - Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single
moment- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
-- Jorge Luis Borge... - Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
- Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)... - We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
- Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhaue

