"For it is a matter of daily observation……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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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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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 present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he…
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There…
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
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