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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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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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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
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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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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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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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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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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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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
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On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation on that works, a great head.
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is.
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