Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Independence Quotes, Foundation Quotes

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

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The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

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My body and my will are one.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

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(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

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alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

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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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Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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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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