Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes — Page 30

Philosopher

Creative

“Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.”

Light Genius Precious Stones

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Philosophical

“The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.”

Memories Lessons Youth

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Philosophical

“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”

Men Communication

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Philosophical

“Newspapers are the second hand of history.”

Hands Philosophical

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Funny

“The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.”

Men Running Animal

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Philosophical

“A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.”

Men Mean Real

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Calm

“Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.”

Mirrors Theater

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Creative

“Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.”

World Bugs

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Funny

“[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.”

Animal Rights Europe

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Philosophical

“JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.”

Resurrection Reunion Parting

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Wise

“Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.”

Children Hands Reality

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Philosophical

“We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.”

Thinking May Firsts

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