Arthur Schopenhauer

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."

-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."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

-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

"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

-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

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

-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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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"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

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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

-Arthur Schopenhauer