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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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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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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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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
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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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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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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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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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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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