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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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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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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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No one can transcend their own individuality.
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