Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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