Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Book Quotes, Dry Up Quotes

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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Compassion is the basis of morality.

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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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Scoundrels are always sociable.

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That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

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