"A hedge between keeps friendship green."
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"I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people."
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"To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial."
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"The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince."
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"... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)"
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"The world is my representation"
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"Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes."
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"To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy."
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"Truth is most beautiful undraped."
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"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation"
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"Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous"
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