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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

Arthur Schopenhauer · Knowledge

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Happiness

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Age