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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Philosopher
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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.
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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
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At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.
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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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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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