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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Anything Bark Begin Dogs Ever Journalists Like Moves

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Double Duties Marry Means Monogamous Our Part Rights World

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

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Like Order Other Ourselves People Three-Quarters

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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

Topics: Also Appropriation Books Buy Buying Contents Could Good Good Thing Mistaken Purchase Read Rule Them Thing Time Would A Good Thing

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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.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Clothes Discarded Else Fundamental He Life Like Man Meal Only Others Own Putting Read Really Remains Someone Stranger Taking Them Thoughts Truth Understands

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Affair Contempt Hatred Head Heart

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Else Equivalent Head Instead Own Reading Someone Thinking

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Another Character Country Every Every Nation Form Mankind Name Nation National Nations Only Other Particular Right Take Which

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

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Art First Like Prince Speak Treat Work You

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

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Almost Almost All Other Our Out People Relations Sorrows Spring

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 22nd, 1788

Died: September 21st, 1860

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