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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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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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.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
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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.
