Tag: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer