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  • He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes
  • The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Two Quotes , Understanding Quotes