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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer in
Change
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer in
Art
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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