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| To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The word of man is the most durable of all material. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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| In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The present is the only reality and the only certainty. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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| A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| After your death you will be what you were before your birth. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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| It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| 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. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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| The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| No one can transcend their own individuality. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| To live alone is the fate of all great souls. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
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