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Rather Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
- We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
- The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,…
- Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of…
- Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
- I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising…
- 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…
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