Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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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.
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All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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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.
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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.
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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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.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
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My body and my will are one.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
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The moralists of Europe have pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.