Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

• One should use common words to say uncommon things

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• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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• Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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• We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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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.

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• To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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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.

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• To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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• There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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• The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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• The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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• The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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Arthur Schopenhauer (111)

Birth:	22nd February, 1788
Death:	21st September, 1860
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation, in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. In 1820, Schopenhauer became a lecturer at the University of Berlin.

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