Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations
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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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