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Arthur Schopenhauer10 quotes
The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1819Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851A 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. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851All 10 quotes →