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May Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
- Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
- 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…
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so…
- The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that…
- Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes…
- Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the…
- Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others…
- A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of…
- If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
- With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important…
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the…
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- 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…
- It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things…
- Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do…
- What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from…
- Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
- The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
- How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the…
- Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong