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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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 weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
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Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
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Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
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On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation on that works, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
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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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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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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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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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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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