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The world is my representation

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.
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Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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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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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
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It is a clumsy experiment to make for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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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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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
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