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If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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My body and my will are one.
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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends fifteen minutes with fools of this kind, it is merely a way of passing the time. I've now got more important things to do. Goodbye!
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedürfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ueberhaupt aber bin ich allmälig der Meinung geworden, daß der erwähnte Nutzen der Kathederphilosophie von dem Nachtheil überwogen werde, den die Philosophie als Profession der Philosophie als freier Wahrheitsforschung, oder die Philosophie im Auftrage der Regierung der Philosophie im Auftrage der Natur und der Menschheit bringt.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer