- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- 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 »
- Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- 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 »
- Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over. Arthur Schopenhauer »
- We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer »
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