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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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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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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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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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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
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At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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