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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Distrust Mind

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Character Man

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a constant process of dying.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Cards

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Delight Man

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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