Works of Arthur Schopenhauer
However, the principal thing must always be to let one's observations precede one's ideas, and not the reverse as is usually and unfortunately the case;
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"Life is a difficult question; I have decided to spend my life in thinking about it."
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Obscurity and vagueness of expression are at all times and everywhere a very bad sign.
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THINKING FOR ONESELF.
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No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.
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His style is an exact expression of how he has thought, of the essential state and general quality of his thoughts.
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rien. It is also a characteristic of such writers to avoid, if it is possible, expressing themselves definitely, so that they may be always able in case of need to get out of a difficulty; this is why they always choose the more abstract expressions: while people of intellect choose the more concrete; because the latter bring the matter closer to
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ON WOMEN.
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while a man should, if possible, think like a great mind, he should speak the same language as every other person. Men should use common words to say uncommon things, but they do the reverse.