Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Book Quotes, Men Quotes

Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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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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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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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

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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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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

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

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What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

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