Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

German - Philosopher | February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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