Tag: Arthur Schopenhauer
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer