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The world is my representation

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
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World

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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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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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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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Life without pain has no meaning.
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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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At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
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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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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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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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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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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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