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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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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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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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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.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.
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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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