“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Category: life
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“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Category: good
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: music
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