Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Healing Quotes, Giving Quotes

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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Man shows his character best in trifles.

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Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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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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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

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Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

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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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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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