More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence…
  2. A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is calle…
  3. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
  4. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
  5. Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
  6. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
  7. There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
  8. To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later …

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