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Arthur Schopenhauer has 469 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
• There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and…
• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
• Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.…
• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
• It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show…
• A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
• The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves…
• Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention…
• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
• The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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