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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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Life without pain has no meaning.
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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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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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Mensch kann tun was er will er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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