Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Book Quotes, Men Quotes

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

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Each day is a little life.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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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.

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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

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In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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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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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

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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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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.

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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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