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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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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
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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.
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
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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.
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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog and I have similar experiences with mankind.
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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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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
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