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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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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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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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Every genius is a great child he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
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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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We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
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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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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
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the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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