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    Arthur Schopenhauer

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    The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ↗


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

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    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

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


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #any #follies #greatest #health #kind

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


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #especially #eyes #face #gradually #mark

    Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. ↗


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #fame #honor #lost #man #means

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


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #action #chief #great #head #heart

    The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. ↗


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #done #fools #just #majority #opposite

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


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #because #cards #deal #idiots #money

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


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #hill #just #once #over #pick

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


    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    #another #indifferent #men #merely #nature






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    This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics in the words of Leon Poliakov to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters". If we could castrate all scoundrels and stick all stupid geese in a convent and give men of noble character a whole harem and procure men and indeed thorough men for all girls of intellect and understanding then a generation would soon arise which would produce a better age than that of Pericles. He quotes Horace's saying "From the brave and good are the brave descended" (Odes iv 4 29) and Shakespeare's line from Cymbeline "Cowards father cowards and base things sire base" (IV 2) to reinforce his hereditarian argument.

    Influenced by Eastern thought he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (i. He has influenced a long list of thinkers including Friedrich NietzscheRichard Wagner Ludwig Wittgenstein Erwin Schrödinger Albert EinsteinSigmund Freud Otto Rank Carl Jung Joseph Campbell Leo Tolstoy Thomas Mann and Jorge Luis Borges.

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