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Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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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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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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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Reason is feminine in nature it can only give after it has received.
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
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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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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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