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Them Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first…
- 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…
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
- 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 scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be…
- Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources…
- Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers…
- It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes…
- The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they…
- No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a…
- The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which…
- We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
- Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses…
- The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and…
- 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 strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors…
- To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of…
- To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they…
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands.…
- ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
- 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…
- 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…
- The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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