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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Humility

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Sources represented here include Counsels and Maxims, The Art of Literature, The Wisdom of Life.

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The first thing that experience finds to do is to free us from the phantoms of the brain—those false notions that have been put into us in youth.
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“The first thing that experience finds to do is to free us from the phantoms of the brain—those false notions that have been put into us in youth.”

Counsels and Maxims · 1851
Meaning & context

Experience is presented as corrective: inherited assumptions and youthful projections can be revised when later encounters expose a mismatch between expectation and reality.

Source details

Counsels and Maxims, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10715. The statement belongs to Schopenhauer’s broader, characteristically pessimistic discussion of age and experience.

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experience, intellectual attainments, the practice of seeing to the bottom of things, and so a perfect mental vision, form in themselves a mass which continues to increase in size
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“experience, intellectual attainments, the practice of seeing to the bottom of things, and so a perfect mental vision, form in themselves a mass which continues to increase in size”

Counsels and Maxims · 1851
Meaning & context

Schopenhauer describes accumulated experience and practiced inquiry as resources that can continue growing even while other capacities change with age.

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Counsels and Maxims, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10715. The passage appears in an age-related comparison of intellectual powers and accumulated material.

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it is only when he has turned it over that he can be said to know it.
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“it is only when he has turned it over that he can be said to know it.”

The Art of Literature · 1851
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Learning becomes knowledge, in this account, when material has been actively reconsidered and integrated rather than merely encountered or memorized.

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The Art of Literature, section “On Thinking for Oneself,” T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10714. The preceding sentence says a person must first learn something before turning it over in the mind.

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a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered.
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“a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered.”

The Art of Literature · 1851
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Accumulated information is distinguished from understanding: Schopenhauer values knowledge that has been actively compared, connected and reconsidered over a larger but unprocessed store.

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The Art of Literature, section “On Thinking for Oneself,” T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10714. The library analogy immediately precedes the sentence.

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The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men
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“The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men”

The Wisdom of Life · 1851
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Schopenhauer emphasizes interpretation as a major part of lived experience: the same world can appear very different depending on the qualities and habits of the person perceiving it.

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The Wisdom of Life, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10741. The claim belongs to Schopenhauer’s philosophical account of personality and subjective experience.

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by the constant growth of insight and knowledge, this intellectual life, like a slowly-forming work of art, will acquire a consistency, a permanent intensity, a unity which becomes ever more and more complete
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“by the constant growth of insight and knowledge, this intellectual life, like a slowly-forming work of art, will acquire a consistency, a permanent intensity, a unity which becomes ever more and more complete”

The Wisdom of Life · 1851
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The image treats intellectual development as cumulative craftsmanship: insight and knowledge gradually produce greater coherence instead of appearing as a single finished achievement.

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The Wisdom of Life, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10741. The simile compares a developing intellectual life with a slowly formed work of art.

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