The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present centuryshows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.
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Genius is its own reward for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself.... Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius it is their patent of nobility.
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease
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