"Freedom of the press is to the machinery……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine."
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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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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is…
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
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The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best…
— James Prescott Joule
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
— Napoleon Hill
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing.…
— Larry Page
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Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
— John Ruskin
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