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.

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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.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Animal
  • Dumb

• Short on glamour and long on tragedy.

  

  Quentin Reynolds
  • Long

• Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Technology
  • Generation

• If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Water
  • Idea
  • Ocean

• 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 . . .

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Rule

• One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

  

  Socrates
  • Health
  • Gods
  • Bringing

• I am so hip even my errors are correct

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • American
  • Errors
  • African

• 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.

  

  William Wallace
  • Destruction
  • Heritage
  • Deny

• Stern Winter loves a dirge – like sound.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Like
  • Sound
  • Loves

• If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Emotional
  • Tree
  • Branches

• 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.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Abuse
  • Accepted

• To paraphrase Robin Williams’s compelling teacher character in Dead Poets Society: We don’t study poetry to get an “A,” to graduate, to get a job, to make money, to meet material needs. Rather, “we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering . . . these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love . . . these are what we stay alive for.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Money
  • Job
  • Passion

• Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Lost

• Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Prison
  • Stealing
  • Believing

• 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.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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