
“ I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. ”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1819). copy citation
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1819
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English
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Translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp