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Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- 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.
- The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
- The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
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