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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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.
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
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Pride works _from within_ it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
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To call the world God is not to explain it it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Talent works for money and fame the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
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One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
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