Die Erinnerung wirkt wie das Sammlungsglas in der Camera ob… - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Die Erinnerung wirkt wie das Sammlungsglas in der Camera obscura: Sie zieht alles zusammen und bringt dadurch ein viel schöneres Bild hervor, als sein Original ist.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

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