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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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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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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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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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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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A happy life is impos­si­ble the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
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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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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
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No one can transcend their own individuality.
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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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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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