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Take Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
- For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
- Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee.…
- 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…
- Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
- 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…
- To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
- National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks…
- 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…
- To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others,…
- For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied…
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