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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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Talent works for money and fame the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
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