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Much Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- 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…
- Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
- In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not…
- Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of…
- Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
- A word too much always defeats its purpose.
- What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
- Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other…
- Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because…
- To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man…
- If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they…
- 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…
- 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 can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when…
- We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of…
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
- Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that…
- He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
- Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
- One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order…
- A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new…
- If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man…
- 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…
- There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies…
- The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of…
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