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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860), also known as the “Philosopher of Pessimism”, was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic, metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.

Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. But your individuality is not your true and final being, indeed it is rather the mere expression of it, . . . only the phenomenon presented in the form of time, and accordingly has both a beginning and an end. Your being in itself, on the contrary, knows neither time, nor beginning, nor end, nor the limits of a given individuality. . . . So that, in the first sense, after death you become nothing; in the second, you are and remain everything.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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