#Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and

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It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and

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It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and

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It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and

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No man can be in perfect accord with any one but himself— not even with a friend or the partner of his life; differences

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Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

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To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to

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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like

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No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what

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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena;

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We must recognise the fact that mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity, that absurdity is an element in

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What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know

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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be

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The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is

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A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument —

_Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims_