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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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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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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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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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