Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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Short on glamour and long on tragedy.
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Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.
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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . . .
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One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
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Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
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Stern Winter loves a dirge – like sound.
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.
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...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
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This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
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If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.
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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
