More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the wor…
  2. At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, …
  3. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been…
  4. ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is--nothing.
  5. This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
  6. Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years a…
  7. The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does …
  8. Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is eit…

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