Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Book Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

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Man shows his character best in trifles.

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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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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Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

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

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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

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

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[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

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