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"All of life is a foreign country."

Kerouac, Jack on life
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"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

Kerouac, Jack on dream
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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on suffering
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on stupidity    Share

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur on stubbornness    Share

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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on sacrifice    Share

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading
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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."

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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading
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"It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on character
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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on power
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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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on women    Share

"A word too much always defeats its purpose."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on words    Share

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"Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on money    Share

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"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on loneliness
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."

Miller, Henry on knowledge
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"The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way."

Miller, Henry on leadership
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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

Beauvoir, Simone De on equality    Share

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

Beauvoir, Simone De on service
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

Seneca on advice
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

Seneca on difficulties
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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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on detail
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on greed
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on imitation    Share

"No one can transcend their own individuality."

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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on intelligence and intellectuals
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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 to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on knowledge    Share

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