Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
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What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
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Alles Wollen entspringt aus Bedürfnis, also aus Mangel, also aus Leiden.
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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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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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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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Der Philister … ist demnach ein Mensch ohne geistige Bedürfnisse. Hieraus nun folgt gar mancherlei: erstlich, in Hinsicht auf ihn selbst, daß er ohne geistige Genüsse bleibt; nach dem schon erwähnten Grundsatz: il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins.
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Der allgemeine Ueberblick zeigt uns, als die beiden Feinde des menschlichen Glückes, den Schmerz und die Langeweile.
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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.
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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.