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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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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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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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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is.
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What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
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To call the world God is not to explain it it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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