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Quotes from Parerga and Paralipomena — Arthur Schopenhauer

1788–1860 Germany

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head.

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Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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But truth acquired by thinking of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

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