Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, People Quotes

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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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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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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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

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Authority and example lead the world.

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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

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