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

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

—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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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There is no limit to the power of loving.

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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it.

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It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

—Jim Morrison

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