Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.Arthur Schopenhauer
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time'.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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