Tag: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer