Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Philosophical

“Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.”

Thinking Mean Reading

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Melancholic

“A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”

Thinking Men Goal

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Philosophical

“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.”

Men Mean

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Philosophical

“The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.”

Lying Feet

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Philosophical

“Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately”

Book Important Should

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Wise

“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”

Philosophical Willpower

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Wise

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

Mystery Pessimism

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Courageous

“It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.”

Men Sex Race

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Wise

“That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.”

Facts Machines Arithmetic

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Philosophical

“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”

Intellectual Connections Passionate

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Philosophical

“Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.”

Men Negative Satisfaction

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Grieving

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Mother Father Party

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