Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Authority
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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
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Authority and example lead the world.
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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
- Born: February 22, 1788
- Died: September 21, 1860
- Occupation: Philosopher