43 quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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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.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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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.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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