More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. 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.
  2. 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…
  3. Compassion is the basis of all morality.
  4. 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…
  5. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
  6. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
  7. Obit anus, abit onus.
  8. The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow…

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