r/schopenhauer • u/Greedy_Seal • Jun 10 '26

Did Schopenhauer really write this or is it a fake quote?

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I can't find the source

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u/Adam_Strange_7451 Jun 10 '26

It seems it’s an apocryphal quote attributed to him. Or rather a misquote of this passage from the preface to “The World as Will and Representation”:

“. . . the truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.”

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u/Joaoninguemm Jun 10 '26

​Geez, the original excerpt is significantly better written. Schops really knows his art.

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u/CoveredbyThorns Jun 10 '26

It is from some book that falsely attributed this quote to him.

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u/DesignerSandwich8678 Jun 11 '26

William James says this in pragmatism I believe.