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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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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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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
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