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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

Nationality: German
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Birth: 1788-1860
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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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 dearth.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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No one can transcend their own individuality.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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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.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treas
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
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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.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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