Background Image
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Please Wait....
Translating....

Life Is Neither To Be Wept Over

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
Views: 2
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
True Life Life Is Understood

More From Arthur Schopenhauer

Last night i wept. i wept because the process by which i have become woman was painful. i wept because i was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. i wept because my eyes were opened to reality....i wept because i could not believe anymore and i love to believe. i can still love passionately without believing. that means i love humanly. i wept because i have lost my pain and i am not yet accustomed to its absence.
Life Children Pain
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. they laughed at columbus, they laughed at fulton, they laughed at the wright brothers. but they also laughed at bozo the clown.
Funny Brother Laughter
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little norman churches no great universities nor public schools -- no oxford, nor eton, nor harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no epsom nor ascot some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in american life.
Loyalty Country School
At the still point of the turning world. neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, but neither arrest nor movement. and do not all it fixity, where past and future are gathered. neither movement from nor towards, neither ascent nor decline. except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
Past Silence Would Be
I wept in my dreams. i dreamed you lay in the grave; i awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. i wept in my dreams, i dreamed you had left me; i awoke and i went on weeping long and bitterly. i wept in my dreams, i dreamed you were still kind to me; i awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.
Dream Long Tears
What i mean by socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain­slack brain workers, nor heart­sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'
Mean Heart Men
Similar Quotes
Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. there's very often a formality. a staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. it also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act victorian.
Mean Acting Quality
"first female president." that's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first african-american president. i mean, women, yeah, i mean, make the case that they've been victimized. but they can't put themselves in the same shoes as slavery's legacy for example. now, women might try to make the case. hillary [clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain't gonna fly.
Powerful Mean Shoes
I mean, all of these things that [bashar assad] has done, there's no way even if president obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million sunni in between baghdad and the border of turkey, syria, and iraq, who will never, ever again accept assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.
Mean Iraq Turkeys
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
Children Mean Eye

Trending Author

Andrej Pejic
Andrej Pejic
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce
Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Hubert Selby, Jr.
Hubert Selby, Jr.
Ann Romney
Ann Romney
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation