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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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To call the world God is not to explain it it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
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Unrest is the mark of existence.
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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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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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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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