Today is the birthday of Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860), philosopher."Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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