Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes


112 quotes:

"To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties."
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"A word too much always defeats its purpose."
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"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident."
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"Time is that in which all things pass away."
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"The first rule, indeed by itself virtually a sufficient condition for good style, is to have something to say"
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"Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over."
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"First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident"
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"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."
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"The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped"
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"Intellect is invisible to the man who has none"
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"No one can transcend their own individuality."
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"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
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"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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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."
Author: Schopenhauer Quotes Category: German Philosopher Quotes
"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."
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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
Author: Schopenhauer Quotes Category: German Philosopher Quotes
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
Author: Schopenhauer Quotes Category: German Philosopher Quotes

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