"Not to go to the theater is..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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“Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”
“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
“The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.”
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“One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.”
“Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.”
“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
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“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”
“Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.”
“There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.”