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A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it.


Arthur Schopenhauer

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great tal...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can se...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A word too much always defeats its purpose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental cap...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is a...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have sim...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER