More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
  2. If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
  3. Obit anus, abit onus.
  4. Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
  5. Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
  6. If the reader has also received the benefit of the Vedas, the access to which by means of the Upanishads is in my eyes the greatest privile…
  7. It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus…
  8. How entirely does the Oupnekhat breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian La…

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