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Should Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same…
- Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects…
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that…
- Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world…
- Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
- 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…
- Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
- We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded…
- If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same…
- Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might…
- How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own,…
- The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
- A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
- We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
- If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to…
- Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed…
- Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
- NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
- If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be…
- A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his…
- One should use common words to say uncommon things
- If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and…
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- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
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