"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"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.“
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"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies."
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"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
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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."
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
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