"Buying books would be a good thing if……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"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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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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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation…
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they…
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we…
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is…
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates…
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking…
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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is…
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the…
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I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for…
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