Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 27)

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"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 existence as witnesses to our success"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Music is the melody whose text is the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Compassion is the basis of morality"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"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 appropriation of their contents"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

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