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.
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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
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I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot
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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.
