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Arthur Schopenhauer has 469 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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, all-good, and…
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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 to answer.…
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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 youth show…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man…
— Charlotte Bunch
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On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.
— Wes Fesler
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(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any…
— Samuel Clarke
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Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
— Thomas McGuane
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not…
— George MacDonald
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour…
— Edward Dowden
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When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
— Chrissie Hynde
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss:…
— Victor Hugo
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