QUOTES by Arthur Schopenhauer
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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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 stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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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. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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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 amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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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 books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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