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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason QUOTES

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason QUOTES

1 " Că însă un patron absolut ticălos precum Hegel, a cărui întreagă pseudofilozofare a fost de fapt o amplificare monstruoasă a argumentului ontologic, a căutat să-I apere pe acesta împotriva criticii lui Kant constituie o alianţă de care însuşi argumentului ontologic i s-ar face ruşine, oricât de puţin are el de-a face cu ruşinea. "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

2 " clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

3 " Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

4 " Alla intuitionb is intellectual. For without the understanding it would never come to intuition, to perceptionc, apprehensiond of objects; rather, it would remain as mere sensation,e which at most could have significance with regard to the will as pain or comfort, but would otherwise be a change of meaningless states and "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

5 " always remember that we are in Germany where we have been able to do what would have been possible nowhere else: namely to proclaim as a great mind and profound thinker a mindless, ignorant, nonsense-spreading philosophaster who, through unprecedented, hollow verbiage, thoroughly and permanently disorganizes their brains. I mean our dear Hegel. And "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

6 " But this has brought about [98]everything that makes the life of humans so rich, so cultivated, and so terrible, that here in the West, which has made them pale and white, and where the ancient, true, profound, original religionsb of their homeland could not follow, humans no longer recognize animals as their brothers, but believe them to be something fundamentally different from themselves; and to maintain this illusion, humans call animals beasts, assigning derogatory terms to all the vital functions which humans have in common with them, considering "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

7 " The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui. "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

8 " Above all the genuine philosopher will generally seek lucidity and clarity and will always strive not to be like a turbid, raging, rain-swollen stream, but much more like a Swiss lake, which, in its peacefulness, combines great depth with a great clarity that just reveals its great depth. "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

9 " The highest, i.e., the most general concepts, are the poorest; ultimately these are just empty shells, as, e.g., being, essence, thing, becoming, ect. - incidentally, whatever could philosophical systems produce when they are merely spun out of these same concepts and have as their matter only such empty shells of thought? They must be infinitely empty and poor, and therefore, turn out to be tedious and suffocating. "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason