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• That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
  ... Noise is a torture to all intellectual people. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if only you begin to inoculate it before the age of five
  by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhaue
• The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• You judge others only by how well they live up to their own capacities.