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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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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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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
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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.
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
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