Tag: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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