The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh...

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh...

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have...

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have...

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than...

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than...

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by...

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by...

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite...

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite...

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and...

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and...

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth,...

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth,...

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in...

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in...

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change...

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change...

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself

Things do not change; we change.

Things do not change; we change.