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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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 a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
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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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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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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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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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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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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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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight a woman at eighteen.
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Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
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