More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. * Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly antagonistic towards one another and mutu…
  2. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
  3. 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 …
  4. We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their exis…
  5. Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve me…
  6. Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart …
  7. Truth that has been merely learned is like an ?artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; at best, ?like a nose made out of another's fl…
  8. Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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