"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."

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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

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"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."

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"Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions."

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"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."

Spiritual

"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."

Reality

"It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge."

Knowledge

"The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. " A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short."

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

Explore more quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

"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."

"Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions."

"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

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

"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."

"The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. " A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short."