Aber jeder erbärmliche Tropf, der nichts in der Welt hat, darauf er stolz seyn könnte, ergreift das letzte Mittel, auf die Nation, der er gerade angehört, stolz zu seyn: hieran erholt er sich und ist nun dankbarlich bereit, alle Fehler und Thorheiten, die ihr eigen sind, mit Händen und Füßen zu vertheidigen.

Arthur Schopenhauer (* 22. Februar 1788 in Danzig; † 21. September 1860 in Frankfurt am Main)

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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

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“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”

―Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
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“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

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@Tontrug ich empfehle #ArthurSchopenhauer "Die Kunst, recht zu behalten" aus dem @reclamverlag für 6€. Da werden systematisch alle Tricks durchgegangen. Danach durchschaut man die Scheinargumente besser. Dann passiert einem auch nicht mehr so oft, das echte Argumente so einfach weg gebügelt werden. #Debattenkultur #Scheinargument https://www.reclam.de/detail/978-3-15-019091-3/Schopenhauer__Arthur/Die_Kunst__recht_zu_behalten

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"Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally."

--Arthur Schopenhauer, "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life"

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An interesting HN thread on the Schopenhauer "On Authorship" money-ruins-literature theme:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415500

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Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little. And here, too, that Spanish proverb holds good, which declares that honor and money are not to be found in the same purse —honora y provecho no caben en un saco.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Authorship"

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship

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