"A high degree of intellect tends to make…" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…
— Jane Austen
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I…
— Michele Bachmann
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— Honore de Balzac
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't…
— Alain de Botton
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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