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No one can transcend their own individuality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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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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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
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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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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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Man shows his character best in trifles.
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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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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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