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Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Truth

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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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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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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
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alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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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 heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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