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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Wealth is like sea-water the more we drink, the thirstier we become and the same is true of fame.
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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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