"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.“
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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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."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
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-Jeff Bridges
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
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