"A word too much always defeats its purpose." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"A word too much always defeats its purpose."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site.
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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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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the…
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
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You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats…
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Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just…
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of…
— Henry Steele Commager
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Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
— Terry Pratchett
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Good music always defeats bad luck
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In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society…
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