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Great Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
- The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of…
- Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to…
- On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
- As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors…
- There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the…
- To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
- Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
- Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
- In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they…
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before…
- The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
- What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this…
- A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and…
- Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are…
- To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
- Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches
- There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the…
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