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52 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Politeness
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Satisfaction
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
Style
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Curiosity
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Age and Aging
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Explanations
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Mystery
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Fame
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Desire
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Fools and Foolishness
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Certainty
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Language
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
Adversity
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
Time and Time Management
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Correction
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Loneliness
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
Marriage
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Vengeance
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Imitation
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Greed
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun