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Arthur Schopenhauer
February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860
Nationality: German
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: German Philosopher

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

   

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

   

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.

   

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

   

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

   

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

   

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

   

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

   

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

   

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

   

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

   

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

   

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

   

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

   

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

   

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

   

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

   

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

   

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

   

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

   

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