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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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 time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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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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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
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