Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and lif

It is only a mans 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 elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one anothers money. Idiots! – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. – Denis Diderot

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What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. – Ambrose Bierce

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The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

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They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. Ive written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then Id wake up and theyd be gone. – Alice Cooper

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