Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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  • Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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  • 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 care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
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  • Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
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  • Compassion is the basis of all morality.
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  • Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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  • Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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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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  • If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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  • If we weren'g all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
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  • The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
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  • The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
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  • If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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  • A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants
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  • Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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  • All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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  • Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
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  • Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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  • We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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