Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Time Quotes, Squares Quotes

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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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

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

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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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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 truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

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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.

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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

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