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Arthur Schopenhauer

  • Antea Grabovacje citiralaprije 3 mjeseca
    How learned many a man would be if he knew everything that was in his own books!

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  • Antea Grabovacje citiralaprije 3 mjeseca
    There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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  • Antea Grabovacje citiralaprije 3 mjeseca
    However, the public is very much more interested in matter than in form, and it is for this very reason that it is behindhand in any high degree of culture

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  • Antea Grabovacje citiralaprije 3 mjeseca
    This is why simplicity has always been looked upon as a token, not only of truth, but also of genius.

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  • mimotaa666je citiraoprije 9 mjeseci
    experience the commiseration that alone is the peace to which the Gospel calls us. The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary, to regard him as an object of
  • mimotaa666je citiraoprije 9 mjeseci
    When you come into contact with a man, no matter whom, do not attempt an objective appreciation of him according to his worth and dignity. Do not consider his bad will, or his narrow understanding and perverse ideas; as the former may easily lead you to hate and the latter to despise him; but fix your attention only upon his sufferings, his needs, his anxieties, his pains. Then you will always feel your kinship with him; you will sympathise with him; and instead of hatred or contempt you
  • mimotaa666je citiraoprije 9 mjeseci
    seems to me that the idea of dignity can be applied only in an ironical sense to a being whose will is so sinful, whose intellect is so limited, whose body is so weak and perishable as man's. How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!—
  • Liamje citiraoprošle godine
    The one half is the object, whose forms are space and time, and through these plurality. But the other half, the subject, does not lie in space and time, for it is whole and undivided in every representing being. Hence a single one of these beings with the object completes the world as representation just as fully as do the millions that exist
  • Liamje citiraoprošle godine
    Now in this respect, the true opposite of rational knowledge (Wissen) is feeling (Gefühl)

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  • Liamje citiraoprošle godine
    It is therefore wrong to say that “gravity is the cause of a stone’s falling”; the cause is rather the nearness of the earth, since it attracts the stone. Take away the earth, and the stone will not fall, although gravity remains
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