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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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A happy life is impos­si­ble the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
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That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
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Every genius is a great child he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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