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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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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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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Talent works for money and fame the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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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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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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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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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
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