A word too much always defeats its purpose.
More Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer:
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.Arthur Schopenhauer
First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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