More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. 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…
  2. Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a co…
  3. 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…
  4. Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he ta…
  5. ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is--nothing.
  6. Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends fifteen minutes with …
  7. 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, …
  8. A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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