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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.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
appropriation, appropriations, buying, contents, mistaken, purchase, rule book, The Purchase
«Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.»
«The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Discovery of, effectively, mislead, preconceived, preconceived opinion, prevented, The Discovery
«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»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
«Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
clouded, hipped, legged, sex drive, shouldered, stunt, stunted, stunting
«The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Brain may, organism, organisms, parasite, regarded, The Brain
«Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.»
«Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible»
«Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.»
«With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy»
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