Tag: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer