Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.”— 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.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”— Arthur Schopenhauer