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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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About Arthur Schopenhauer

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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...

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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—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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