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Time 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…
- It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in…
- To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in…
- He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and…
- Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune…
- If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
- It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- 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…
- Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a…
- For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a…
- ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
- Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said…
- ...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an…
- To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
- If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
- 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…
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