Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Light Quotes, Precious Stones Quotes

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

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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.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

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When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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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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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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