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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Animals learn death first at the moment of death...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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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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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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