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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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 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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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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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 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 major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
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